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“I go back to the union man and say, Sir, this is a house of God, not a proper place for a union meeting. I have some things to say today that God would not want to hear in His own house. Boys, I wa...”
“What do you see out there? I ask. Pittsburgh, he replies. Now I laugh. No, young man. What you see is hell with the lid taken off. Mother Jones”
“If capitalist realism is so seamless, and if current forms of resistance are so hopeless and impotent, where can an effective challenge come from? A moral critique of capitalism, emphasizing the wa...”
“Well, honey, its capitalism that brings out the meanness and greed, says I. Our founding fathers did a decent job of framing our democracy. They wrote the Constitution and added a Bill of Rights th...”
“Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to look at the sociological literature on poverty, a mo...”
“Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology.”
“In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.”
“When multi-national corporations are given the same powers as feudal states or nations: expect wars.”
“When we think of readapting mankind to a world of unity and co-operation, we have to consider that practically all the educational machinery on earth, is still in the hands of God-selling or Marx-s...”
“Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?”
“Corporations barely pay taxes. The corporate tax rate is already very low, but corporations have worked out an array of complicated techniques so they often don't have to pay taxes at all... The sc...”
“the government tends to act like a corporation treating the public as its consumers rather than its citizens”
“One glance at any government budget anywhere in the world tells the storythe money is always in place, already allocated, the motive everywhere is fear, the more immediate the fear, the higher the ...”
“The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.”
“They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.”
“Making universal prosperity a right is the surest way to universal poverty.”
“Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet.”
“So everybody lives the way they're told to.The way they have to. Everybody most of the time. Not ever all the time. Hair style, clothing, manner of speech, ideas, cars, houses, and everything. Just...”
“In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital diff...”
“I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both o...”
