“[Rock and the intellectual Left] must both be interpreted as parts of the cultural fabric of late capitalism. Their success comes from the bourgeois' need to feel that he is not bourgeois.” NeedsFeelsLeftRocksLateIntellectualCapitalismFabricBourgeois Book:Closing of the American Mind Source: Closing of the American Mind
“For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over the talent, the science, the technology, how to buy out the human capital, how to acquire the intellectual property rights?” HumansEnemyTechnologyRightsTalentBearsIntellectualCapitalismPropertyWestSocialismAcquireProperty RightsIntellectual PropertyPolar Bears Author:Michel Chossudovsky
“The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.” DoeStillsPoliticalValuesMoralIntellectualCapitalismDetermineArtisticSpheresInsistenceAmerican Capitalism Author:William Pfaff
“The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism.” SocialNeededIntellectualCapitalismClimateInvestingEntrepreneurshipThrive Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter
“Rosa Luxemburg was - still is for me - a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and social democracy are all worth reading. I wouldn't consider anyone truly politically literate if they hadn't given her work at least some study.” IfsStillsReadingGivenSocialDemocracyStudyIntellectualCapitalismAnalysisHeroinesRosaWorth ReadingGreat PersonSocial Democracy Author:Christopher Hitchens
“The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology.” ProblemPoliticalIntellectualCapitalismTransformationUniversitySocialismCommunismThreatenedInterferenceFinancingIsmsIntellectual Freedom Author:Serge Lang
“I've never had a stupid student in my life. I never look down on my students. I never thought, "Look at these people." I might argue with them and I think that some of them might have misconceptions - that they might be infected by the intellectual laziness that is the foundation of American popular culture, and of capitalism, if you wish. But part of my job as a teacher is to work with that - against that.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksMightJobsCultureWishTeacherStupidStudentsIntellectualCapitalismFoundationArguingLazinessMisconceptionPopular CultureIntellectual Laziness Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“We do not assert that the capitalist mode of economic calculation guarantees the absolutely best solution of the allocation of factors of production. Such absolutely perfect solutions of any problem are out of reach of mortal men. What the operation of a market not sabotaged by the interference of compulsion and coercion can bring about is merely the best solution accessible to the human mind under the given state of technological knowledge and the intellectual abilities of the age's shrewdest men.” MenMindHumansStatesProblemAgeGivenAbilityPerfectEconomicIntellectualSolutionsCapitalismProductionsFactorsMortalsOperationsGuaranteesHuman MindCapitalistTechnologicalCompulsionCoercionCalculationsInterferenceAllocationFactors Of Production Author:Ludwig von Mises
“If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collectively. Government isn't always the problem. It's sometimes the solution. And, so their whole intellectual scaffolding collapses. So, they'd rather deny the science.” IfsWayNeedsSometimesWholeProblemGovernmentTogetherIntellectualSolutionsCapitalismGreedClimate ChangeDenyOutcomesCollapseScaffolding Author:Naomi Klein
“It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.” ProblemActionPoliticalFightingCommunityEssentialsIntellectualCapitalismAspectRemainsAquariumsCommunity Action Author:Barney Frank
“Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.” PoliticalMoralExpressionIntellectualCapitalismIdealsIndividualismCollectivism Author:Ayn Rand