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“Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.”

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Book:Marxism: For and Against

Source: Marxism: For and Against

“We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations - that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor.”

“Punishing enemies and rewarding friends - politics Chicago style - seems to be the unifying principle that helps explain the Obamacare waivers, the NLRB action against Boeing and IRS's gift tax assault on 501(c)(4) donors. They look like examples of crony capitalism, bailout favoritism and gangster government. One thing they don't look like is the rule of law.”

“Mafia is the best example of capitalism we have.”

Example Capitalism Mafia

Author:Marlon Brando

“The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological conformity to preempt anything that looks like an alternative or a social movement is destroying capitalism.”

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Author:David Graeber

“Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don’t need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.”

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Author:Simon Mainwaring

“But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.”

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Author:Peter L. Berger

“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