“The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.” LooksStatesWinningCapitalismCritics Author:Terry Eagleton
“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.” WayTwoEndsEconomicCenturyEvolutionPoliticianCapitalismResourcesUltimateHistoricalDemocraticCriticsRewardsBest WayContradictionScholarCollapsePhasesSupporterHintsUnstableProminentEconomic Systems Author:Raghuram Rajan
“Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far.” SaidFilmGoneCapitalismCriticsThey Said Author:Eli Roth
“Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.” HumansHuman NatureCapitalismCriticsSelfishSelfishness Author:Dinesh D'Souza
“Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics.” CapitalismCriticsDonation Author:James Cook
“Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.” ThinkingWayWantCompanyCapitalismSellsCriticsConsumersControlledLowest Author:James Surowiecki
“As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed: not only by capitalism's traditional critics but also by many of its staunchest defenders.” Has BeensIdeasGovernmentWealthRichCapitalismCriticsTraditionalGet RichDefendersFacilitate Book:Ill Fares the Land Source: Ill Fares the Land
“To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they call individual merit and asserted not only the desirability but also the inevitability of differential reward, of earned privilege, so to speak.” IndividualSpeakAbilityCapitalismStructureCriticsRewardsPrivilegeMeritDefendersInevitabilityDesirability Author:Immanuel Wallerstein
“It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.” WorldEndsPoliticalImagineEasierCapitalismCriticsEnd Of The WorldTheoristsPolitical Ideology Author:Fredric Jameson
“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