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“The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve.”

Knows Struggle Capitalism Innovation Opponents Defenders Innovators

Book:Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings

“.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.”

Modern Periods Capitalism Intelligent Defenders Hayek Friedrich Hayek

Author:Irving Kristol

“Those who see Smith as a defender of capitalism - as it existed in Marx's day, or as it exists today - show above all that they are not living in the real world. They are behaving as though the undeveloped form of capitalism Smith studied is still with us.”

World Stills Real Shows Today Form Capitalism Real World Defenders

Author:Allen W. Wood

“Smith could not be expected to have anticipated the horrors that were to come. But even in his own time, he was a defender of certain state actions that he thought necessary in order to safeguard the good effects of commercial society (Smith did not speak of 'capitalism' and was acquainted only with an early undeveloped form of it). Among these state actions the chief was general public education.”

States Action Form Certain Order Speak Effects Horror Capitalism Expected Chiefs Defenders Public Education General Public

Author:Allen W. Wood

“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 Beens Ideas Government Wealth Rich Capitalism Critics Traditional Get Rich Defenders Facilitate

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.”

Individual Speak Ability Capitalism Structure Critics Rewards Privilege Merit Defenders Inevitability Desirability

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way.”

Way Doe Running Jobs Race Capitalism Competition Assuming Faster Winner Good Job Paradigm Defenders

Book:Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman

Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman