“The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto than probably by anyone since. I don't think anyone has ever said so precisely and with such awed admiration how great capitalism is, how inventive, how innovative, how dynamic, how much force of creativity it unleashes.” ThinkingWellsSaidEnergyForceCreativityCreativeWrittenCapitalismPraiseEnormousDestructiveAdmirationCommunistInnovativeManifestosCommunist ManifestoEngels Author:Christopher Hitchens
“Capitalism can be helpful, but it can also be destructive when it's used by huge enterprises worldwide for the sale of weapons.” UsedHugeWeaponsCapitalismEnterpriseDestructiveHelpful Author:Judy Collins
“The way we get past capitalism is by building on the healthy non-capitalist aspects of our world while we also do pitched battle with the capitalist ones that we have a fair chance of winning against. In that way we build a better world and shrink the destructive capitalist practices that are part of the social fabric.” WorldWayPastWinningSocialChancePracticeBuildingHealthyBattleCapitalismFairsAspectDestructiveOur WorldCapitalistFabricShrinks Author:Cynthia Kauffman
“Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.” HumanityCapitalismContraryDestructiveVehicleFierceSavagesNihilism Author:Alain Badiou
“Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable effects on the productive capacities of society, but which is of no direct benefit to anyone - not even to the greedy themselves, whose illusory chase after a will-o-the-wisp leaves them morally bankrupt and unhappy.” MayFormSawsModernEffectsBenefitsAmbitionCapitalismCapacityDirectGreedUnhappyDestructiveProductiveAdamGreedyIllusoryWisps Author:Allen W. Wood
“Capitalism would self-destruct in no time. So the business classes have always demanded strong, straight intervention to protect the society from the destructive effects of market forces because they don't want everything destroyed.” WantSelfStrongForceClassEffectsProtectCapitalismDestroyedDestructiveInterventionSelf Destruct Author:Noam Chomsky
“I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.” Has BeensMovementCapitalismDestructiveCommunistIdeologues Author:Arundhati Roy
“A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest.” SelfValuesInterestCivilizationCapitalismEconomicsTraditionBasesProfitDestructiveSelf InterestPublic ServiceSelf DestructiveWrenches Author:John Ralston Saul
“If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.” IfsRealityFormForceBehindsParticularCapitalismCapacityTestsWestVariousResistanceDestructiveExploitationGlobalizationMotor Book:Valences of the Dialectic Source: Valences of the Dialectic