“Rosa Luxemburg was - still is for me - a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and social democracy are all worth reading. I wouldn't consider anyone truly politically literate if they hadn't given her work at least some study.” IfsStillsReadingGivenSocialDemocracyStudyIntellectualCapitalismAnalysisHeroinesRosaWorth ReadingGreat PersonSocial Democracy Author:Christopher Hitchens
“My analysis, especially of the computer revolution, always comes back to capitalism. It's that economic system that has led to Western civilization's willingness to enslave ourselves to machines - because some people benefit enormously from it, while the costs are borne by other people and the planet.” PeopleEconomicPlanetsRevolutionCivilizationCostBenefitsComputerCapitalismMachinesWesternAnalysisWillingnessWestern CivilizationEconomic Systems Author:Kirkpatrick Sale
“As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed.” IdeasCenturyChangedModelsCapitalismDevelopingAnalysisAbstract19th Century Author:Noam Chomsky
“It is inherent in the nature of the capitalistic economy that, in the final analysis, the employment of the factors of production is aimed only toward serving the wishes of consumers.” WishEconomyCapitalismFinalsProductionsFactorsEmploymentConsumersAnalysisServingInherentFactors Of Production Book:On the Manipulation of Money and Credit Source: On the Manipulation of Money and Credit
“The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent on the will of the people as consumers. Thus, whenever there is a conflict between the consumers' views and those of the business managers, market pressures assure that the views of the consumers win out eventually.” PeopleLastsOrderWinningSocialDecisionViewsDemocracyEconomicConflictCapitalismPressureManagersConsumersAnalysisDependentSocial Order Book:On the Manipulation of Money and Credit Source: On the Manipulation of Money and Credit
“The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening within the 'middle classes' - that is, to that ten to fifteen percent of the population of the world-economy who consumed more surplus than they themselves produced. Within this sector there really has been a relatively dramatic flattening of the curve between the very top (less than one percent of the total population) and the truly 'middle' segments, or cadres (the rest of the ten to fifteen percent).” WorldHas BeensReasonSocialClassEconomyGrowingMiddleHavensTenHappeningsPercentCapitalismHistoricalPopulationReason WhyAnalysisDramaticMiddle ClassGapsFifteenCurvesConsumedSurplusSocial ScienceWorld EconomyCadre Author:Immanuel Wallerstein
“In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.” IdeasLastsCapitalismTerrorismDefenseAnalysisJustify Author:Rainer Werner Fassbinder