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“A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket values; to subordinate every aspect of American life to corporate "efficiency" and the bottom line; to demonize not only government but the very idea of public service and public goods.”

Ideas Government Lasts Values Lines Economic Capitalism Aspect Bottom Communism Corporate Goods Efficiency Bottom Line Public Service Subordinates American Life Economic Power

Author:Ellen Willis

“Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.”

Politics Economy Conditions Century Capitalism Aspect Universal Liberalism Protest

Book:Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1533-1556

Source: Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1533-1556

“I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And with the disappearance of its rentier aspect much else in it besides will suffer a sea-change. It will be, moreover, a great advantage of the order of events which I am advocating, that the euthanasia of the rentier, of the functionless investor, will be nothing sudden, merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of what we have seen recently in Great Britain, and will need no revolution.”

Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money

“In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.”

People Way Wells Fall Wealth Business Capitalism Aspect Financial Zero Incentives

Author:Bill Gates

“The fight against capitalism has many aspects, particularly the distinctive economic models that concentrate the capital in few hands.”

Hands Fighting Economic Models Capitalism Aspect Distinctive Economic Models

Author:Evo Morales

“We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.”

People Way Wells Capitalism Aspect

Author:Bill Gates

“The way we get past capitalism is by building on the healthy non-capitalist aspects of our world while we also do pitched battle with the capitalist ones that we have a fair chance of winning against. In that way we build a better world and shrink the destructive capitalist practices that are part of the social fabric.”

World Way Past Winning Social Chance Practice Building Healthy Battle Capitalism Fairs Aspect Destructive Our World Capitalist Fabric Shrinks

Author:Cynthia Kauffman

“All of this is happening because there has still been no reckoning post the financial crisis. So governments have fallen, one bloke has been to prison, the banks have gone pretty well back to status quo, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. And it's fuelling anger. And somehow [Donald] Trump, who represents the worst aspects of capitalism, has persuaded people he can deal with that.”

“We who are members of the Communist Party repudiate the exclusive identification of democracy with capitalism. We declare that democracy can be widened, take on new aspects, become truly a rule of the people, only when it is extended to the economic life of the people, as in the Soviet Union. As far as women are concerned, the U.S.S.R. is a trailblazer for equal rights and equal opportunities.”

“The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism is in crisis precisely because, in pursuing the endless accumulation of capital, it is beginning to approximate that state of being Adam Smith asserted was 'natural' to man but which has never historically existed. The 'propensity [of humanity] to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another' has entered into domains and zones previously untouched, and the pressure to expand commodification is relatively unchecked.”

Men Firsts States Humanity Natural One Thing Capitalism Aspect Pressure Crisis Fundamentals Historical Endless Zone Adam Truck Domain Accumulation Propensity Commodification

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“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.”

Problem Action Political Fighting Community Essentials Intellectual Capitalism Aspect Remains Aquariums Community Action

Author:Barney Frank

“The success of Prozac says that today's high-tech capitalism values a very different temperament. Confidence, flexibility, quickness, and energy - the positive aspects of hyperthymia - are at a premium.”

Different Today Values Culture Energy Capitalism Aspect Flexibility Temperament Premium Prozac Quickness

Book:Listening to Prozac

Source: Listening to Prozac