“Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were uniquely hostile to a problem of this nature and magnitude-that moment being the tail end of the go-go '80s, the blastoff point for the crusade to spread deregulated capitalism around the world. Climate change is a collective problem demanding collective action the likes of which humanity has never actually accomplished. Yet it entered mainstream consciousness in the midst of an ideological war being waged on the very idea of the collective sphere.” WorldIdeasWarEndsMomentsProblemActionSciencePoliticalHumanitySocialNatureNaturalConsciousnessConditionsCapitalismCrisisClimateClimate ChangeSpreadLikesAround The WorldAccomplishedCollectivesMidstThat MomentSpheresMainstreamTailsHostile80sLapIdeologicalMagnitudeCrusadesSocial ConditionsCollective Action Author:Naomi Klein
“Those who yearn for the end of capitalism should pray for government by men who believe that all positive action is inimical to what they call thoughtfully the fundamental principles of free enterprise.” MenShouldBelieveEndsGovernmentActionPrinciplesPrayingCapitalismFundamentalsEnterpriseFree EnterpriseFundamental Principles Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like naïve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your direct action. The State is the pillar of capitalism, and it is ridiculous to expect any redress from it.” MenFirstsChildrenStatesActionPoliticalOrderCausesRealizingCommonLeaderEnemyClassWorstMastersPoliticianMen And WomenCapitalismDirectMachinesBetrayalRidiculousCrushLabourBetrayRulingCreepsPillarsWorst EnemyPolitical LeadersLeashesRedressDirect Action Author:Emma Goldman
“We have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism. ... We are stuck because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastrophe - and would benefit the vast majority - are extremely threatening to an elite minority that has a stranglehold over our economy, our political process, and most of our major media outlets.” GivingDoneActionPoliticalProcessChanceEconomyMediaConflictBenefitsMajorsCapitalismMajorityClimate ChangeStuckMinoritiesElitesCatastropheThreateningOutletsEmissions Author:Naomi Klein
“A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.” ActionPrinciplesModelsEthicsDeserveCapitalismDrivenEntrepreneurshipHeroicFree MarketThoughts And ActionsBusiness Ethics Author:Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
“Punishing enemies and rewarding friends - politics Chicago style - seems to be the unifying principle that helps explain the Obamacare waivers, the NLRB action against Boeing and IRS's gift tax assault on 501(c)(4) donors. They look like examples of crony capitalism, bailout favoritism and gangster government. One thing they don't look like is the rule of law.” LooksHelpingSeemsGovernmentActionLawEnemyPrinciplesOne ThingStyleExampleTaxesCapitalismChicagoAssaultRule Of LawObamacareGangstersIrsDonorsUnifyingBoeingBailoutsFavoritismCroniesCrony CapitalismWaiver Author:Michael Barone
“I think there is a legitimate critique of reformism, as a politics that is content with making small changes in society without asking for bigger and deeper changes. And revolutionary reforms, meaning actions that we take in small ways to make the world a better place and disrupt some of the ways that capitalism is reproduced.” ThinkingWorldWayActionCapitalismBiggerAskingDeeperReformRevolutionaryBetter PlaceCritiqueSmall ChangesChanges In Society Author:Cynthia Kauffman
“Smith could not be expected to have anticipated the horrors that were to come. But even in his own time, he was a defender of certain state actions that he thought necessary in order to safeguard the good effects of commercial society (Smith did not speak of 'capitalism' and was acquainted only with an early undeveloped form of it). Among these state actions the chief was general public education.” StatesActionFormCertainOrderSpeakEffectsHorrorCapitalismExpectedChiefsDefendersPublic EducationGeneral Public Author:Allen W. Wood
“It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from what sense of political outrage or injury? And in that way, the possibility of sympathetic identification was foreclosed. That does not mean that some people took quiet pleasure in certain icons of US capitalism coming down, even though they would oppose such action on moral and political grounds.” PeopleWayMeanDoeActionPoliticalCertainAsksPleasureMoralPossibilityQuietCapitalismInjuryIconsSympatheticOutrageIdentification Author:Judith Butler
“If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.” IfsKindReasonGovernmentActionMoralWeaknessCapitalismAccountsSocialismRejectsLaissez FaireFallibility Book:Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses Source: Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses
“Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.” MeanActionPoliticalChoicesOpportunityPoliticsIndividualFreedomResponsibilityLibertyBearsCapitalismConsequenceBurdenInseparableIndividual Liberty Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“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.” ActionPoliticalEnemyVirtueCapitalismBreathsTradeSuitsExecutivesAttemptingPinsPolitical Enemies Book:Saving Capitalism From The Capitalism Source: Saving Capitalism From The Capitalism
“It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.” ProblemActionPoliticalFightingCommunityEssentialsIntellectualCapitalismAspectRemainsAquariumsCommunity Action Author:Barney Frank