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“The pressures and penalties of existence in the modern capitalist system are intense; and they are penalties not for what is consciously chosen, but for ways of life which are forced like strait-ja...”
“These diverse effects of slavery and freedom are easily understood: the men in Kentucky [neither] have zeal nor enlightenment cross over into Ohio in order to utilize their industry and to be abl...”
“In capitalist nation, all is decided by money.”
“There might be some sort of justification for the savage societies in which a man had to expect that enemies could murder him at any moment and had to defend himself as best as he could. But there ...”
“The road to the new society had lengthened and become overgrown sadly since 1904. The working class in many thousands had been shown its errors in thinking, but persisted in them. Very well: the wo...”
“The Northern powers are more like administrators, who manipulate other peoples history but produce none of their own. They are the stock-jobbers of history, lives are their units of exchange. Lives...”
“What economists and political scientists today call the rational choice of individuals, but what Smith called the individual pursuit of happiness, leads according to this view in a mechanical way t...”
“The communists may not have done very well in the end, but I can't help thinking of capitalism as merely the go-to religion of the greedy and selfish.”
“In a society not characterised by class exploitation, the relationship between the processes of surplus-production and reproduction of labour-power is qualitatively distinct from that characterisin...”
“It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.”
“You know what capitalism produces. According to Marx and Engels.""Its own grave-diggers," he said."But these are not the grave-diggers. This is the free market itself. These people are a fantasy ge...”
“People buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't like.”
“We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined.”
“If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and advantages have ceased to be self-evident.”
“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.”
“In the perfect Capitalist State there would be no food available for the non-owner save when he was actually engaged in Production, and that absurdity would, by quickly ending all human lives save ...”
“The traditional, correct pre-Marxist view on exploitation was that of radical laissez-faire liberalism as espoused by, for instance, Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer. According to them, antagonist...”
“It is time someone put in a good word for the petite bourgeoise. Unlike the working class and capitalists, who have never lack for spokespersons, the petite bourgeoise rarely, if ever, speaks for i...”
“The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck”
“Sweezy argued on the basis of Marx and Keynes that accumulation is the primary factor in capitalist development, yet noted that its influence was waning. There is no mechanism in the system, he exp...”
