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“The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.”

Solutions Capitalism Contradiction Labour Abolition

Author:David Harvey

“There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.”

Long Running Capitalism Contradiction Long Runs Spatial

Author:David Harvey

“Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.”

Country Bigs Emotional Capitalism Contradiction Big Business

Author:David Lilienthal

“America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a very aggressive form of capitalism and consumerism against what might be called a kind of moral or civic impulse.”

Knows Kind Long Has Beens Country Bigs Might America Form Moral Long Time Capitalism Impulse Contradiction Aggressive Consumerism Civics

Author:David Foster Wallace

“For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have seen capitalism as intrinsically unstable, full of contradictions that will lead eventually to its collapse. Its supporters see it as the best way to allocate resources and rewards. Some even hint that the democratic capitalistic society is not just a phase in the historical evolution of economic systems but its ultimate end.”

“The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.”

“You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms.”

Term Capitalism Contradiction Capitalist Charitable

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Capitalism is a powerful producer of output, crisis-mongering on the left notwithstanding, and this too makes the system seem to have a lot of promise. This is why it is so important to agitate against the system in good times and bad. We can't depend on some super crisis to get folks thinking but instead have to focus on all of the contradictions of the system which cannot be ultimately resolved by it.”

Thinking Important Seems Left Powerful Focus Depends Promise Capitalism Crisis Folks Producers Contradiction Good Times Output Agitate

Author:Michael Yates

“Capitalism is, in Mao's language, the main contradiction in the world today and so our efforts have to be focused on ending this system and making a new one.”

World Today Language Effort Capitalism Focused Contradiction World Today Mao

Author:Michael Yates

“If we return to the two faces of individualism - individualism as the spur of energy, initiative, and imagination; and individualism as the limitless struggle of all against all - it can be seen how the two practices emerge from and limit the extend of the disequilibrating impact of the contradiction involved in the geocultural agenda.”

Ifs Two Faces Energy Imagination Practice Struggle Return Involved Limits Capitalism Impact Contradiction Agendas Individualism Initiative Limitless Spurs

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.”

People Ifs Wells Civilization Capitalism Invention Socialism Well Being Dawn Contradiction Improving

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his times, but also of the communism that was always disappointing his deepest hopes. In a book that makes Brecht’s struggle to reveal these hidden contradictions its central theme, Glahn issues, by implication, a call to arms to today’s artists—who are faced with a world that seems to defy attempts to treat the global crisis with an art that is rarely more than notes on ‘local’ angst.”

World Art Book Play Seems Today Artist Struggle Issues Arms Capitalism Treats Crisis Notes Locals Dialogue Communism Theme Contradiction Fascism Implications Angst Disappointing Brecht

Author:Richard Foreman

“A tension has always existed between the capitalist imperative to maximize efficiency at any cost and the moral imperatives of culture, which historically have served as a counterweight to the moral blindness of the market. This is another example of the cultural contradictions of capitalism - the tendency over time for the economic impulse to erode the moral underpinnings of society. Mercy toward the animals in our care is one such casualty.”

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

“Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply become impossible.”

Moving Results Impossible Capitalism Contradiction Unbalanced

Book:The Rosa Luxemburg Reader

Source: The Rosa Luxemburg Reader

“There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less government, and maintain the traditions of society (at least in America's case). However, we must face the cultural contradiction of capitalism: the progress of capitalism, which necessitates a consumer culture, undermines the values which render capitalism possible”

Want Government Today America Faces Political Values Culture Social Cases Progress Capitalism Tradition Consumers Liberalism Contradiction Family Values Consumer Culture

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It's the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.”

Thinking Way Different War Seems Age Social Achieve Solutions Capitalism Nuclear Socialism Contradiction Bows Arrows Coexist Social Systems Bows And Arrows Capitalism And Socialism

Author:Fidel Castro