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“...many of us know deep down, whether we choose to admit it or not, a number of simple truths: the global capitalist economy is incompatible with life. As numerous environmentalist authors... have ...”
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from the things she found in gift shops.”
“They said, Now we are capitalists! but all Ulrich could see was criminality to a principle.”
“But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bo...”
“Deep caring about each other's fate does seem to be on the decline, but I do not believe that New Age narcissism is much to blame. The external causes of our moral indifference are a fragmented mas...”
“Socialism is not panacea and capitalism is not entirely evil.”
“Modernism has been consumed and remains partially digested in the belly of capital, awaiting occasional bouts of flatulence.”
“You can't stop the gears of capitalism. But you can always be a pain in the ass.”
“There's so much one doesn't know; it wasn't my business to know. I mean, when a child asks you how a helicopter works or who made the worldwell, what are you to answer if you're a Beta and have alw...”
“Deregulated marketplace: a brilliant method by which profits are privatized and losses are socialized.”
“And yet, something has changed for the better. We have rediscovered that capitalism is not the answer, but the question.”
“We can't, it seems, live without [capitalism] even as we complain about it.”
“Arguing that the only problem with a free market is lack of competition, is like arguing that that the only problem with prostitution is that there aren't enough pimps.”
“So far as I am aware no leader of a party of the European left in the past twenty-five years has declared capitalism as such to be unacceptable as a system. The only public figure to do so unhesita...”
“Once again it is evident that even between major crises, the market has no answer to the major problem confronting the twenty-first century: that unlimited and increasingly high-tech economic growt...”
“Class analysis can thus function not simply as part of scientific theory of interests and conflicts, but of an emancipatory theory of alternatives and social justice as well. Even if socialism is o...”
“It's the last great free-for-all robbery of everybody's earth.”
“Capitalist production...was necessary to develop the productive forces of society to a level which will make possible an equal development worthy of human beings for all members of society. All ear...”
“Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. We can now revise that and witness the attempt to imagine capitalism by way of imagining t...”
“Today, the language of the market penetrates every pore and forces every interpersonal relation into the schema of individual preference.”
