“Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.” WayPoliticalSocialGrowthBreakEconomicPeriodsCapitalismScalesSocialismExpansionEconomic GrowthIdeologicalFetters Author:Earl Browder
“There is no way to turn off this global economy, nor should one try. Every previous expansion of global capitalism has led to greater prosperity across the world.” WorldWayShouldTryingTurnsEconomyGreaterCapitalismProsperityExpansionTurn OffGlobal Economy Author:Fareed Zakaria
“The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase of capitalism. It is totally inconsistent with democracy as well as with sustainability. What we have is capital working on a global scale, totally uprooted, with accountability nowhere, with responsibility nowhere, and with rights everywhere. This new capital, with absolute freedom and no accountability, is structurally anti-life, anti-freedom.” WellsKindDifferentWholeTodayResponsibilityDemocracyRightsSeeingCapitalismResourcesAbsolutesPropertyScalesAccountabilitySustainabilityPhasesExpansionInconsistentAbsolute Freedom Author:Vandana Shiva
“The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.” LibertyPossibilityCapitalismIdeologyExpansionConnoisseur Book:Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors Source: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
“What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used (invested) in a very special way. It came to be used with the primary objective or intent of self-expansion. In this system, past accumulations were 'capital' only to the extend they were used to accumulate more of the same.” WaySelfPastUsedSocialSpecialCallingCapitalismHistoricalObjectivesPrimariesExpansionAccumulationSocial Systems Author:Immanuel Wallerstein
“On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the other hand an extraordinarily skewed distribution system, substituting medium-run threats for short-term threats for the majority of the world's population, particularly the 50 to 80 percent at the bottom.” WorldHas BeensHandsRunningTermPercentCapitalismMajorityThreatBottomPopulationProductionsProductivityMediumsRemarkableExpansionDistributionShort TermFood Production Book:Capistalist Civilisation Source: Capistalist Civilisation