C Quotes
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“Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.”
“Capitalism works. In the end, socialism imploded on itself. Communism imploded on itself. Ultimately jihadism will implode on itself, if we stay in the fight and stay on offense because failed philosophies don't work, there's no future.”
“Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.”
“Capitalism would self-destruct in no time. So the business classes have always demanded strong, straight intervention to protect the society from the destructive effects of market forces because they don't want everything destroyed.”
“Capitalism's biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling the virtues of competitive markets with every breath while attempting to extinguish them with every action.”
Source: Saving Capitalism From The Capitalism
“Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.”
“Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.”
“Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply become impossible.”
Source: The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
“Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.”
Source: Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution
“Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.”
“Capitalism, communism ... it's all garbage.”
“Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“Capitalism, in contrast, has existed for fewer than 300 years. If the entire history of Homo sapiens was a 24-hour day, then capitalism has existed for two minutes.”
Source: Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism
“Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal method in fact, if not in law.”
“Capitalism, in the realm of sexuality, I figure, thinks that we behave in specific ways, like a breast is always going to produce a hard-on for some product, whereas the truth is that sexuality is always a continuum, which can be characterized by reversals.”
“Capitalism, perhaps at its most remorseless, is a physical manifestation of psychopathy.”
“Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.”
“Capitalism, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, the Free-Market .... What good are these approaches for? These attempts are made by men who are cerebral insufficient. I'm trying to give you back your brain, which they took away from you in schools and in your upbringing. I'm trying to show you how the world works. So if you want a better world, you have to get up off your ass and make it better”
“Capitalism, the ogre of those protesting Wall Street, has suffered a public relations crisis in the wake of the global economic collapse. But any remedy to the systemic corruption that led to the collapse should not displace recognition that capitalism creates wealth. Capitalism, and no other economic system, has raised millions from poverty around the world.”
“Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which produce golden eggs for its table.”
“Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.”
“Capitalismul modern este la fel de subversiv ca marxismul. Perspectiva materialistă a vieții pe care ambele sisteme sunt bazate este identică; ambele lor idealuri sunt identice calitativ, inclusiv prin premisa conform căreia lumea s-ar învârti în jurul tehnologiei, științei, producției, productivității și consumului. Câtă vreme vorbim despre clase economice, profit, salarii, producție și câtă vreme considerăm că progresul umanității este determinat de un anumit sistem de distribuție a banilor și a bunurilor și că, în general vorbind, progresul umanității se măsoară în nivelul de bogăție sau sărăcie — atunci înseamnă că nici măcar nu ne-am apropiat de ceea ce este esențial în viață.”
Source: Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist
“Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is anti-human and intolerable in the deepest sense”
Source: On Anarchism
“Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.”
“Capitalism’s real “grave-diggers” may end up being its own delusional Cardinals, who have turned ideology into faith. Despite their strategic brilliance, they seem to have trouble grasping a simple fact: Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises-War and Shopping-simply will not work.”
“Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer.”
Source: Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)
“Capitalist and economist in their souls don't see newborns as kids but as consumers.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Capitalist enterprises and activist enterprises are ultimately both human enterprises. They reflect the contradictions, complexities, and richness of the human beings that create them, own them, patronize them, move them, work for them, and manage them. They are imperfect and impure, just like the dedicated flawed people behind them. Too much progress has been needlessly impeded by arbitrary notions of purity and perfection.”
Source: The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change
“Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented towards the people as a whole and based on the principle that man is the most precious of all possessions, will allow us to go forward more quickly and more harmoniously, and thus make impossible that caricature of society where all economic and political power is held in the hands of a few who regard the nation as a whole with scorn and contempt.”
“Capitalist forces have looked to depoliticize as many spheres as possible. To create a feminist politics of solidarity, women have to recognize the forces that push them apart and push them into meaningless competition, by keeping them from collective understanding and engagement. Individuality within the capitalist framework is an antidote to politics and solidarity.”
Source: Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
“Capitalist ideology in general, Zizek maintains, consists precisely in the overvaluing of belief - in the sense of inner subjective attitude - at the expense of the beliefs we exhibit and externalize in our behavior. So long as we believe (in our hearts) that capitalism is bad, we are free to continue to participate in capitalist exchange. According to Zizek, capitalism in general relies on this structure of disavowal. We believe that money is only a meaningless token of no intrinsic worth, yet we act as if it has a holy value. Moreover, this behavior precisely depends upon the prior disavowal - we are able to fetishize money in our actions only because we have already taken an ironic distance towards money in our heads.”
Source: Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
“Capitalist manifesto : Profiteers of the world, unite!”
Source: The New Land
“Capitalist or communist, it all boils down to a pointless distinction between two types of poor and to a major misconception that we almost managed to dispel some forty years ago: the fallacy that a life without poverty is a privilege you have to work for, rather than a right we all deserve.”
Source: Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
“Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.”
Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume II: The Economist
“Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.”
Source: Marx's Capital
“Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no longer a natural fact so much as a political-economic effect). In the 1960s and 1970s, radical theory and politics (Laing, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, etc.) coalesced around extreme mental conditions such as schizophrenia, arguing, for instance, that madness was not a natural, but a political, category. But what is needed now is a politicization of much more common disorders. Indeed, it is their very commonness which is the issue: in Britain, depression is now the condition that is most treated by the NHS. In his book The Selfish Capitalist, Oliver James has convincingly posited a correlation between rising rates of mental distress and the neoliberal mode of capitalism practiced in countries like Britain, the USA and Australia. In line with James’s claims, I want to argue that it is necessary to reframe the growing problem of stress (and distress) in capitalist societies. Instead of treating it as incumbent on individuals to resolve their own psychological distress, instead, that is, of accepting the vast privatization of stress that has taken place over the last thirty years, we need to ask: how has it become acceptable that so many people, and especially so many young people, are ill?”
Source: Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
“Capitalistic Anarchism ? Oh, yes, if you choose to call it so. Names are indifferent to me; I am not afraid of bugaboos. Let it be so, then, capitalistic Anarchism.”
“Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.”
Source: Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century
“Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.”
“Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.”
“Capitalists believe they can take everything at the table as belonging to them. Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.”
“Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?”
“Capitalists don't cause disparities, everyday, ordinary people like you and I do, by falling for their same old pitch of comfort and luxury.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Capitalists grow wealth. Socialists redistribute wealth.... but population grows, so the Socialist population control kicks in in the form of eugenics.”
“Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.”
“Capitalists have the tendency to move toward those countries in which there is plenty of labor available and at which labor is reasonable. And by the fact that they bring capital into these countries, they bring about a trend toward higher wage rates.”
“Capitalists rule the world, because civilians lay low. Politicians rule the world, because civilians lay low.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with.”
“Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.”
“Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.”