“The only factor that poses a genuine challenge to the current order is the willingness of human beings to reject the injustice and irrationality of this economy, and stand up for something better. Capitalism will not fall-rather, it must be pushed.” HumansOrderFallChallengesHuman BeingsEconomyCapitalismInjusticeCurrentsGenuineFactorsRejectsWillingnessSomething BetterIrrationality Author:Jim Stanford
“Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?” IfsWorldChallengesRocksCapitalismChanging The WorldPunkSoberPunk Rock Author:Kathleen Hanna
“The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world.” PeopleWorldYoungChallengesGenerationsCapitalismInvestmentCornersLawyerAround The WorldBankersOur GenerationAround The Corner Author:Kabir Sehgal
“The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.” ChallengesDecisionCenturyProduceCapitalismFinancialArchitectureTwentieth CenturyDegenerates Author:Will Hutton
“Forget socialism, capitalism, just-in-time deliveries, salary surveys, and the rest ... concentrate on building organizations that accomplish that most difficult of all challenges: to make people look forward to coming to work in the morning.” PeopleLooksDifficultChallengesForgetMorningBuildingCapitalismOrganizationAccomplishSocialismSalaryDeliverySurveys Author:Ricardo Semler
“The main argument is that capitalism is constituted by a varied of different practices, and so challenging capitalism needs to be about a variety of struggles. I draw on the important work of J.K. Gibson-Graham, who argues that we should model anti-capitalist struggle on feminist struggles.” NeedsShouldImportantDifferentChallengesPracticeStruggleModelsDrawsCapitalismArgumentFeministArguingVarietyCapitalistImportant Work Author:Cynthia Kauffman
“Brexit and Trump have brought the problems of capitalism into sharp relief, but both are only making things worse. Take the investment challenge - businesses invest where there they see technological or market opportunity.” ProblemOpportunityChallengesTrumpCapitalismInvestmentReliefTechnological Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“Neither capitalism nor socialism is capable of meeting our unprecedented global challenges. Both came out of early industrial times, and we are now well into the post-industrial age. Both came out of times when the West still oriented much more to the domination side of the social scale, so both these theories did not pay attention to caring for people and nature.” PeopleWellsStillsAgeSocialSidesChallengesPayAttentionTheoryCapableCapitalismMeetingsWestCaringScalesSocialismPostsPay AttentionDominationUnprecedented Author:Riane Eisler
“There has to be a kind of grassroots push, a movement, as it were, against the inherent isolationism of American capitalism as practiced in the publishing industry. There need to be grants and government support and a few publishers, mainstream and independent, who are not afraid to challenge American readership. We need to build a network of translators, publishers and readers. We hope that our annual anthology might provide an upsurge in interest for European fiction and then, as we publish it every year, become a habit to many readers.” KindInterestChallengesSupportHabitCapitalismIndependentNot AfraidPublishingPublishTranslators Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“As a political activist you run the risk of having to settle for one compromise or another in order to achieve your goals. Artists face the obvious accusation of elitism. The fundamental principle of my work is that it critiques capitalism in very specific ways. I am not interested in generalized political rhetoric. Instead of "aestheticizing" political issues, I try to challenge ingrained perspectives.” TryingRunningPoliticalArtistGoalChallengesRiskAchievePerspectiveCapitalismObviousCompromiseSettlingActivistNot InterestedRhetoricCritiqueAccusationElitism Author:Josephine Meckseper
“Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.” IfsWayTwoFacesForceSocialChallengesPowerfulActingPracticeGreaterCitizensEqualCapitalismThirdsTransformationConsumersCorporationsConcertsTwo WaysPillarsGreater GoodSocial Transformation Author:Simon Mainwaring
“The challenge for capitalism is that the things that breed trust also breed the environment for fraud.” ChallengesEnvironmentCapitalismFraudAmerican Capitalism Author:James Surowiecki
“We have the knowledge, resources, and capabilities to make global capitalism work in a more inclusive and socially responsible manner while retaining - indeed enhancing - its economic benefits.” ChallengesEconomicInspireBenefitsCapitalismResourcesResponsibleCapabilityProvokingRetaining Author:John Dunning
“The challenge here is to design a system where market incentives, including profits and recognition, drive those principles to do more for the poor. I like to call this idea creative capitalism, an approach where governments, businesses, and nonprofits work together to stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or gain recognition, doing work that eases the world's inequities.” PeopleWorldIdeasGovernmentTogetherForceChallengesPoorBusinessPrinciplesCreativeDesignApproachCapitalismGainsIncludingProfitRecognitionEaseWorking TogetherIncentivesNonprofits Author:Bill Gates
“Provided that societies stay mindful of the challenges that capitalism creates and never forget the paramount importance of inclusion and equal opportunity, we can and should celebrate the miracle of free enterprise-and the billions of souls it has helped free from desperate poverty.” ShouldSoulOpportunityChallengesForgetPovertyEqualCapitalismImportanceMiracleBillionsCelebrateDesperateEnterpriseNever ForgetInclusionParamountEqual OpportunityFree Enterprise Author:Dalai Lama
“Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.” Has BeensFightingBornChallengesLinesRepublicanPicksCapitalismDemocraticDemocratDebateSocialismFree MarketThesisAntithesisDemocratic SocialismFree Market Capitalism Author:Dick Morris