Capitalist Quotes - Page 8

• We Communists have got to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. But we are going to continue massive military programs. . . (soon) we will be in a position to return to a much more aggressive foreign policy designed to gain the upper-hand.

  Leonid Brezhnev

  Military, Technology, Hands

  "Kissinger: The Secret Side of the Secretary of State". Book by Gary Allen, 1976.

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• Adam Smith is an egalitarian, he believed in equality of outcome, not opportunity. He is an enlightenment figure, pre-capitalist. He says, suppose in England, one landowner got most of the land and other people would have nothing to live on. He says it wouldn't matter much, because the rich land owner, by virtue of his sympathy for other people would distribute resources among them, so that by an invisible hand, we would end up with a pretty egalitarian society. That is his conception of human nature.

  Noam Chomsky

  Opportunity, Invisible Hand, Hands

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• The Second World War had really devastating effects for much of Europe. It really didn't take them very long to reconstruct state capitalist democracies because it was in people's heads. There were other parts of the world that were pretty much devastated and they couldn't do it; they didn't have the conceptions in their mind. A lot of it is human consciousness.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Europe, Long

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• Style is a capitalist invention. It's a trademark. It's very useful in the world of commerce to have a good trademark, but it wasn't my first concern. I got restless

  Art Spiegelman

  Style, World, Firsts

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• In 1980 I was a red kid and no one could have said anything bad about the Soviet Union. At least this is how my grandfather used to remember me. Around 1981, I became a pro-capitalist person and it stuck.

  Lubos Motl

  Kids, Grandfather, Unions

  "Helmut Schmidt on global warming". Lubos Motl's blog, motls.blogspot.nl. June 5, 2007.

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• We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely perfect solutions of any problem are out of reach of mortal men. What the operation of a market not sabotaged by the interference of compulsion and coercion can bring about is merely the best solution accessible to the human mind under the given state of technological knowledge and the intellectual abilities of the age's shrewdest men.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Perfect, Mind

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• A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point of time served as a mythologized foil against which to treat the empirical reality of the present.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Reality, Transformation, Treats

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.7, Verso

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• Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.

  Bell Hooks

  Cult Of Personality, Ideas, Consumers

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.227, Routledge

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• Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalists, Plans

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• The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people. The capitalists, the entrepreneurs, and the farmers are the people's mandatories. If they do not obey, if they fail to produce, at the lowest possible cost, what

  Ludwig von Mises

  People, Giving, Entrepreneur

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• The Dutch have a can-do mentality, anything is possible. As long as you pay for it. It is very capitalist. Quite American in a way.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Long, Pay, Dutch

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the irregular army of the people. I refuse to obey any command to fight from the ruling class, but I will not wait to be commanded to fight for the working class. I am opposed to every war but one; I am for that war with heart and soul, and that is the world-wide war of social revolution. In that war I am prepared to fight in any way the ruling class may make necessary, even to the barricades.

  Eugene V. Debs

  War, Heart, Fighting

  "In What War Shall I Take Up Arms and Fight?" by Eugene V. Debs, www.marxists.org. September 1915.

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• Marx's own illusion was to think that the working class movement, which he devoted his life to creating and strengthening, would both be socially and politically successful in the industrial nations of Western Europe, and that it would develop an entirely new way of human social life that would retain and even enhance the productive benefits of capitalism while overcoming the inhumanity and exploitation of capitalist social relations. Marx himself had no solutions to these problems. His object of study was capitalism itself.

  Allen W. Wood

  Successful, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists.

  Tyler Cowen

  Entrepreneur, Artwork, Profit

  Tyler COWEN, Tyler Cowen (2009). “In Praise of Commercial Culture”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• I've lived a lot in communist countries and they're intensely interested in money. I think they are more interested in money than capitalists are. They're the most materialistic people in the world. What they're actually living for is material things. The irony of that is that in communist countries there isn't anything to buy.

  Truman Capote

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The cheap but simple human emotion of envy is the driving force of all socialism, of all anti-capitalist philosophy. It is the mark of the intellectual.

  Andrew Joseph Galambos

  Philosophy, Simple, Envy

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• A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Departed, Doe, Venture Capitalists

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• Hip-Hop is diverse. But the white, capitalist producers and distributors of Hip-Hop are most interested in the Hip-Hip that is misogynist, that is Black-hating, that is pugilistic, that is to say all about fighting and war and killing and gangsterism.

  Bell Hooks

  Hate, War, Fighting

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October, 2006.

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• Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.

  Steven Pinker

  Self, Hatred, Noble

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• The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Smell, Looks

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

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• The Russian revolution did not occur until a generation after Marx's death. He was not involved with it, or with what came after it. His works do not describe post-capitalist society, and a fortiori they do not recommend any part of what the Soviet Union did.

  Allen W. Wood

  Unions, Revolution, Generations

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There are self-styled "anarcho-capitalists" (not to be confused with anarchists of any persuasion), who want the state abolished as a regulator of capitalism, and government handed over to capitalists.

  Donald Rooum

  Confused, Government, Self

  Donald Rooum (2016). “What is Anarchism?: An Introduction”, p.19, PM Press

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• The capitalist system was termed "capitalism" not by a friend of the system, but by an individual who considered it to be the worst of all historical systems, the greatest evil that had ever befallen mankind. That man was Karl Marx.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Evil, Historical

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.10, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The capitalist system is not delivering those decade-after-decade increases it promised. We're not where we should be in terms of our national economies. We don't know how to get out of this malaise and I think we now have to consider more radical policies.

  Adair Turner, Baron Turner of Ecchinswell

  Thinking, Economy, Increase

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. It is the conception of a purely physical change, and as such it involves only political scene shifting and institutional rearrangements

  Emma Goldman

  Class, Ideas, Political

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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