“Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there.” PeopleShouldLittlesFactsAsksBitsAbilityWalksBehindsCompanyRichBrokenRepublicanLittle BitDrawsCapitalismLeavingDistinctionNeighborhoodFactoriesManipulateFlawedHandfulRich PeopleLootingBroken Family Author:Newt Gingrich
“I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.” PeopleIfsBelieveLeftI BelieveDealsBehindsCapitalismSafetyI Believe InCapitalistLeft BehindSafety Net Author:Thomas Friedman
“Behind the abstraction known as 'the markets' lurks a set of institutions designed to maximize the wealth and power of the most privileged group of people in the world, the creditor-rentier class of the First World and their junior partners in the Third.” PeopleWorldFirstsWealthBehindsKnownClassGroupsCapitalismThirdsInstitutionsPartnersPrivilegedAbstractionJuniorsCreditors Author:Doug Henwood
“It's very contradictory for a man to teach about the murder in corporate capitalism, to isolate and expose the murderes behind it, to instruct that these madmen are completely without stops, are licentious, totally depraved — and then not make adequate preparations to defend himself from the madman's attack. Either they don't really believe their own spiel or they harbor some sort of subconscious death wish” MenBelieveWishBehindsTeachCapitalismMurderPreparationCorporateSubconsciousAdequateContradictoryHarborsMadmenDepravedDeath Wish Author:George Jackson
“The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.” LyingLiteratureBehindsCrimeJudgingCapitalismFortune Author:Honore de Balzac
“Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.” Has BeensIdeasForceBehindsTechnologyProgressTeamProductsCapitalismInnovationMethodNew IdeasNew TechnologyNew Products Author:Manmohan Singh
“If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.” IfsRealityFormForceBehindsParticularCapitalismCapacityTestsWestVariousResistanceDestructiveExploitationGlobalizationMotor Book:Valences of the Dialectic Source: Valences of the Dialectic
“It looks like the age of the mass is behind us and the age of the individual is upon us. The chasm that now exists between new people and old organizations is destroying economic value and inhibiting the emergence of a new chapter of capitalism aligned with the needs of this new society. The new purpose of commerce is to provide the tools, platforms, and relationships, digital or human, that enable individuals to live the lives they choose.” PeopleNeedsHumansLooksAgePurposeValuesIndividualBehindsEconomicMassCapitalismToolsOrganizationDigitalDestroyingPlatformsChaptersCommerceEmergenceChasmsEconomic Value Author:Shoshana Zuboff
“I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.” WayWellsFactsImaginationBehindsCapitalismCriticsIncludingSuspectsAssetsCrucialEconomistUndertakingsLagRuthlessnessInventiveness Author:Zygmunt Bauman