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“The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks,...”
“He had been taught as a child that Urras was a festering mass of inequity, iniquity, and waste. But all the people he met, and all the people he saw, in the smallest country village, were well dres...”
“Exchange, fair or unfair,always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.”
“We all know how 'modern democracies take loaves from the wealthy.' It's the slipups in the 'pass them out to the poor' department that inspire a study of Economics.”
“The whole discussion now underway on revolutionary forms in Russia and in China boils down to the judgement to be made of the historical phenomenon of the "appearance" of industrialism and mechanis...”
“To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses.”
“Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this nice difference, that the Reds make no pretense at such frivolities as civil liberties or environ...”
“Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a yearand setting their compensation for themselvesare not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise of wages. ”
“It is irrelevant to the entrepreneur, as the servant of the consumers, whether the wishes and wants of the consumers are wise or unwise, moral or immoral. He produces what the consumers want. In th...”
“Nonetheless, many people, and especially intellectuals, passionately loathe capitalism. As they see it, this ghastly mode of societys economic organization has brought about nothing but mischief an...”
“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, t...”
“Romantic literature often presents the individual as somebody caught in a struggle against the state and the market. Nothing could be further from the truth. The state and the market are the mother...”
“Nothing is more evident than that modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical; both of their ideals are qualitati...”
“This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.”
“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.”
“What we do with the product of genius is first of all ram it down to the lowest common denominator and then multiply it by the vulgarest possible fraction. -from "Pawley's Peepholes”
“Capitalism and socialism are tools. Each have pros and cons. For each task, use the one that makes the most sense.”
“People who dismiss all capitalism or all socialism are opposite ends of the same kind of stupid.”
“Capitalism: let live who can afford to, not simply who wishes to. Life has a price and it belongs only to those who can pay it.”
“Old McDonald had a restaurant,E, I, E, I, O,And in that restaurant was some beef,E, I, E, I, O,With a moo moo here,And a moo moo there.Here a moo, there a moo,Everywhere a moo moo cholesterol fille...”
