“Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity-thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as pernicious as the materialism taught by communism.” MenWisdomHumanityPoliticsQualityEconomyDangerTaughtJudgingCapitalismConcernedSizePracticalsCommunismLiberalismMaterialismSalaryAutomobilePerniciousMaking A Living Book:A Martin Luther King Treasury Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury
“Ecology's implications for capitalism are too momentous for the capitalist to contemplate. The plutocrats are more wedded to their wealth than to the Earth upon which they live, more concerned with the fate of their fortunes than with the fate of humanity. The present ecological crisis has been created by the few at the expense of the many.” Has BeensEarthPoliticalHumanityWealthFateCapitalismConcernedCrisisFortuneExpensesCapitalistContemplatingEcologyImplicationsEcologicalEcological Crisis Book:Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader Source: Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader
“There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism. People look at me sideways now and are like, "With everything going on, the destruction of the environment, these endless wars, this capitalism that has a stranglehold on our culture and our world and you're talking about feminism still?"” PeopleWorldLooksStillsWarCultureTalkingEnvironmentFeminismCapitalismConcernedDestructionEndlessOur WorldLook At MeSidewaysEndless War Author:Ani DiFranco
“If we take the pope at his word and socialism is highly preferable to capitalism and he was really concerned about these people, he would demand they go home. He would demand they return to their homelands wherever they are, if they were socialist.” PeopleIfsHomeReturnDemandCapitalismConcernedSocialismSocialistPopeHomeland Author:Rush Limbaugh
“From the time I first understood economic principles, I was always concerned also that any system be operated on an efficient basis, which meant decentralization because knowledge is not concentrated anywhere. It's based on motivation, and so these are the advantages of, say, the cautious case for capitalism, that the market system is efficient.” FirstsMotivationPrinciplesCasesEconomicUnderstoodCapitalismAdvantageConcernedBasesEfficientCautiousDecentralization Author:Kenneth Arrow
“So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism, but he had made an erroneous assessment of China's actual situation. In the first place, the targets of the revolution were wrongly defined, which led to the effort to ferret out "capitalist roaders in power in the Party". Blows were dealt at leading cadres at all levels who had made contributions to the revolution and had practical experience, including Comrade Liu Shaoqi.” FirstsMadeOrderLevelsPartyEffortSituationRevolutionCapitalismConcernedIncludingBlowChinaPracticalsDefinedContributionTargetCapitalistChairmanRestorationAssessmentComradeMaoAvertFerretsChairman MaoCadrePractical Experience Author:Deng Xiaoping
“The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.” GivingShowsCultureCoursesStuffMoralViolenceCapitalismConcernedCrisisGreedFinancialIdeologySupposed To BeNightmareAngleGiving InFuturisticForeclosure Author:Matt Taibbi
“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.” PeopleOpportunityWomenPartyDemocracyRightsEconomicEqualMembersCapitalismConcernedAspectUnionsCommunistSovietSoviet UnionExclusiveEqual RightsIdentificationEqual OpportunityCommunist PartyTrailblazers Author:Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
“Capital, never concerned with distribution, is now less and less concerned with production. Capital is driving for power, for the control over markets, lands, resources. Capital, in corporate hands, can move anywhere and thus demand and get the utmost in concessions and privileges as well as the freedom to operate in the interest of ever-increasing wealth and assets.” WellsHandsMovingInterestWealthLandDemandCapitalismResourcesConcernedPrivilegeProductionsDrivingCorporateAssetsDistributionConcessions Author:Eric Kierans
“Capital movements are no longer necessarily related to the production of goods and services. Through the financial markets of the world, capital movements today are overwhelmingly concerned with the capture of and trade in property rights, the ownership of assets that magnify a corporation's wealth, power, and control. It is what John Maynard Keynes described as "a casino world"-wealth without worth.” WorldTodayWealthRightsMovementCapitalismConcernedTradePropertyFinancialProductionsCorporationsRelatedGoodsAssetsCaptureOwnershipProperty RightsCasinosGoods And ServicesFinancial MarketsPower And ControlKeynes Author:Eric Kierans