Best capitalism & alternatives Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.”

People Believe Stills Country Literature Numbers Economic Capitalism Socialism Alternatives Eras Marxism Economic Systems Capitalism And Socialism

Author:Herbert Read

“So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.”

“To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need.”

Needs Desire Social Citizens Capitalism Conviction Ignorant Alternatives Renunciation Good Citizen Unforgivable Anti Social

Author:Ivan Illich

“Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.”

Humans Ideas Different Consciousness Destiny Human Nature Capitalism Flow Add Alternatives Grain Accumulation

Author:Adrienne Rich

“In Southeast Asia the world is understood to be a vast, complex network of interdependent relationships. So when global capitalism makes it impossible for small-time rice farmers to feed their families and make a living, it is a natural thing for anyone in the family who can find an alternative source of income to do so.”

World Natural Impossible Source Understood Capitalism Complexes Income Alternatives Farmers Asia Rice Natural Things Southeast Asia South Asia

Author:John Burdett

“I think capitalism will survive, because no attractive alternatives exist now”

Thinking Capitalism Alternatives Attractive

Author:Jack Goldstone

“Communism then defines a society in which there are communal forms for dealing with resources. Many communal forms exist where there are not communist governments. The Mondragon cooperatives in Spain and the thousands of worker-owned cooperatives in the United States, are viable alternatives to capitalism.”

States Government Form United United States Capitalism Resources Workers Communism Alternatives Communist Spain Cooperatives

Author:Cynthia Kauffman

“The problem is so severe that trying to say, "First we'll fix the government and then we'll tackle climate change," or, "First we have to figure out alternative systems to capitalism and then we'll tackle climate change," I don't see how those things are possible in the very short term.”

Trying Firsts Problem Government Term Figures Capitalism Climate Climate Change Alternatives Severe Short Term

Author:Margaret D. Klein

“Marx's writings still have something to teach us about capitalism. They have little or nothing to teach us about any alternatives to it. Anyone who had read them knows that.”

Knows Writing Littles Stills Teach Capitalism Alternatives

Author:Allen W. Wood

“Economics and politics are so intertwined and interlinked that politics now, mainstream politics, extreme center politics, are little else but a version of concentrated economics. And this means that any alternative - alternative capitalism, left Keynesianism, intervention by the state to help the poor, rolling back the privatizations - becomes a huge issue. The entire weight of the extreme center and its media is turned against it, which in reality now is beginning to harm democracy.”

“The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological conformity to preempt anything that looks like an alternative or a social movement is destroying capitalism.”

Looks Social Security Example Movement Capitalism Weight Russia Enormous Alternatives Conformity Destroying Ideological Social Movements

Author:David Graeber

“In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.”

People Needs Has Beens Force Theory Capitalism Claims Fundamentals Profit Driven Alternatives Communist Capitalist Regimes Brutality Marxist Marxist Theory

Author:Cornel West

“The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without any discussion of the rich variety of alternatives ... Unlike civil laws, economic laws are imposed on people with all the authority of immutable laws of nature. But the economy is created by people, supported by government intervention, regulation, statute and subsidy, and implemented in such a way that it gives substantial wealth and power to a privileged few, while the majority face a life of relentless work, stress and periodic financial insecurity.”

“A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”

Men Humans Doe Two Social Human Beings Capitalism Socialism Alternatives Cooperation Social Systems Disintegration Capitalism And Socialism

Book:Human action: a treatise on economics

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

“But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.”

World Real Economy Modern Example Capitalism Democratic Alternatives Socialist Modern World Democratic Society Socialist Economy

Author:Peter L. Berger

“I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself is in many ways extremely objectionable.”

Thinking Way Made Ends Economic Capitalism Sight Alternatives Efficient

Author:John Maynard Keynes

“It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.”

Thinking Persons Difficult Term Ordinary Capitalism South Alternatives Racist Links South Africa Exploitation Socialist Ordinary Person

Author:Joe Slovo

“Democracy suits Europeans today partly because it is associated with the triumph of capitalism and partly because it involves less commitment or intrusion into their lives than any of the alternatives. Europeans accept democracy because they no longer believe in politics. It is for this reason that we find both high levels of support for democracy in cross-national opinion polls and high rates of political apathy.”

Believe Reason Today Political Levels Accepting Opinion Support Democracy Commitment Capitalism Crosses Rate Suits Alternatives Triumph Apathy Polls High Level Intrusion Opinion Polls

Author:Mark Mazower

“Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”

Men Humans Politics Human Beings Capitalism Socialism Alternatives Capitalism And Socialism

Book:Human action: a treatise on economics

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

Capitalism Quotes

Related topics

Capitalism Quotes