“In our society competitive capitalism has put family life and working life on a collision course.In Canada statistics show that over 70 percent of the burden of caring for children, the aged, the disabled and the sick falls on women most of whom receive no pay for these very essential tasks.Normally speaking, it may be said that the forces of capitalism, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and thus increase the gap between them.” IfsMayChildrenSaidShowsFallCoursesLeftForcePoorPayRichEssentialsPercentCapitalismTasksSickIncreaseBurdenCaringCanadaOur SocietyStatisticsGapsFamily LifeDisabledCollisionChild CareWorking Life Author:Jawaharlal Nehru
“I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, to block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human systems it falls victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.” KnowsGivingHumansTodayFallClassImagineEconomicTheoryMassCapitalismVictimTradeNobleBlockLuxuryMeritMotiveRelativeMonopolyUsefulnessEconomic Theory Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for a share of the available wealth. A few people accumulate big piles, but most do not. The sense of community falls victim to this struggle.” PeopleMenBigsFallCommunityWealthStruggleShareCapitalismFellowsVictimCompetitionAvailableEvery Man Book:Sixty stories Source: Sixty stories
“The only factor that poses a genuine challenge to the current order is the willingness of human beings to reject the injustice and irrationality of this economy, and stand up for something better. Capitalism will not fall-rather, it must be pushed.” HumansOrderFallChallengesHuman BeingsEconomyCapitalismInjusticeCurrentsGenuineFactorsRejectsWillingnessSomething BetterIrrationality Author:Jim Stanford
“In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.” PeopleWayWellsFallWealthBusinessCapitalismAspectFinancialZeroIncentives Author:Bill Gates
“Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism.” LongRunningFallWonderfulCapitalismProductionsTendenciesLong Runs Author:Murray Rothbard
“Wall Street banks have used the same tactic that Bush used in the war on terror - fear - and they've basically said that if you don't do what we tell you, the sky will fall. If you don't do what we tell you, it will be the end of capitalism as we know it. The failure of Lehman Brothers lent some credence to those fears.” IfsKnowsSaidWarEndsUsedFallSkyStreetsBrotherWallCapitalismTerrorTacticsWar On TerrorCredenceLehman Brothers Author:Joseph Stiglitz
“The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.” EndsHandsGovernmentFallDemocracyRevolutionCapitalismInstitutionsDefeatAmerican RevolutionLendingIncorporation Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something that requires thought, knowledge, care, giving, and respect. And it is something that is rare and difficult to find in capitalism, which commodifies human activity.” GivingHumansArtFeelingsCareFallDifficultLove IsEffortActivityCapitalismSpontaneousHuman Activity Author:Erich Fromm
“One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil prices, the debt imbroglio, and falling terms of trade. The last of these governments to fall were the Communist regimes of eastern Europe, which have now gone the way of other Third World countries. The second in the cascade of bifurcations is thus symbolized by 1989.” WorldWayCountryGovernmentLastsFallTermGoneCapitalismEuropeThirdsTradeDebtOilCommunistRegimesEasternUndoneThird WorldEastern EuropeThird World CountriesCascadeImfOil PriceTutelageBifurcation Author:Immanuel Wallerstein
“Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have to be pushed. The accumulation of capital will never cease. It will have to be stopped. The capitalist class will never willingly surrender its power. It will have to be dispossessed.” FallClassCapitalismSurrenderCeaseCapitalistAccumulation Book:The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism Source: The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism