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  • What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

  • Schools in amerika are interested in brainwashing people with amerikanism, giving them a little bit of education, and training them in skills needed to fill the positions the capitalist system requires. As long as we expect amerika's schools to educate us, we will remain ignorant.

    School   Skills   Long  
    Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.196, Zed Books
  • Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.

  • Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy. In such a system production is constantly expanded as long as further production is profitable, and men constantly innovate new ways of producing things that will expand the profit margin.

    Men   Long   World  
    Immanuel Wallerstein (1979). “The Capitalist World-Economy”, p.15, Cambridge University Press
  • Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

    Joseph A. Schumpeter (2003). “Ten Great Economists”, p.77, Routledge
  • The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland. The Irish question is a social question. The whole age-long fight of the Irish people against their oppressors resolves itself in the last analysis into a fight for the mastery of the means of life, the sources of production, in Ireland. Who would own and control the land? The people, or the invaders; and if the invaders, which set of them - the most recent swarm of land thieves, or the sons of the thieves of a former generation?

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

  • Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

    Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic, common sense, resilience, technology, and, if need be, racism and imperialism.

  • The enemy and his allies are now at the gates of the capitalists' fortress. Is there any hope that the businessman will finally sense the danger to himself and the system of which he is a part and rise to meet the challenge?

    Benjamin A. Rogge (1979). “Can Capitalism Survive?”, Liberty Fund
  • In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not a feature of free capitalism.

    Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.286, VM eBooks
  • I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one that was meeting the challenges and making things better for people as we approach the 21st century.

    War   People   Challenges  
  • Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.

    Source: www.identitytheory.com
  • Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the basic tyrant of the modern age.

    Tyrants   Age   Modern  
    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks
  • The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations.

    Wife   Culture   Today  
    David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.156, Transaction Publishers
  • Germany is a capitalist state nurtured carefully and brought back to prosperity by the United States, and it is very loyal to the United States. I don't even think the Germans enjoy full sovereignty. There are some things which they cannot do if the United States doesn't wish them to do it.

    Thinking   Wish   Germany  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • Socialism is a fundamentally different social system where the world's resources are not controlled by a greedy, undemocratic oligarchy. This is not the same as the capitalist welfare states that have existed in some European countries.

    Source: www.socialistalternative.org
  • The crisis is the price for the capitalist system

  • I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty

  • If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work.

    Country   War   Trying  
  • I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.

  • Capitalists, if you think that you can play footsies with these people, you're wrong. They will come for you and drag you into the streets and kill you.

    Thinking   Play   People  
    "The Glenn Beck Program", October 10, 2011.
  • To make the revolution in the United States is a slow day by day job that requires patience and discipline. It is the only way to make it. . . . All I know is that despite the fact that I am one of the people who benefit from a capitalist society, I find that any system which exploits other people cannot and should not exist.

  • Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist ownership in private industry and commerce is bound to bring about a tremendous liberation of the productive forces. Thus, the social conditions are being created for a tremendous expansion of industrial and agricultural production.

    Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.20, Lulu.com
  • Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field; the workers are compelled to accept any piece wages offered to them, because otherwise they would get nothing at all, and they could not live from the products of their small-scale agriculture alone, and because, on the other hand, it is just this agriculture and landownership which chains them to the spot and prevents them from looking around for other employment.

  • Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it exist at all? It's hard to answer the question if you don't know what money actually is. Proposing to eliminate it entirely seems utopian and naive.

    "Note worthy: what is the meaning of money?" by David Graeber, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011.
  • The key problem is to find out why that sector of society of the past, which I would not hesitate to call capitalist, should have lived as if in a bell jar, cut off from the rest; why was it not able to expand and conquer the whole of society?... [Why was it that] a significant rate of capital formation was possible only in certain sectors and not in the whole market economy of the time?

    Cutting   Past   Keys  
    Fernand Braudel (1982). “Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century: The wheels of commerce”, p.248, Univ of California Press
  • I’m a capitalist, not a corporatist. I’m not someone who believes we should be bailing out corporations whether their auto industries, or banks.

    Rick Santorum during Republican debate at the Milwaukee Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, time.com. November 11, 2015.
  • the internationalization of economic activity and its major vehicle, the TNC, can be regarded simply as being part of the normal expansive process of capitalist development.

    Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.200, SAGE
  • Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.

    Kings   Bread   Earth  
    Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”, Library of America
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