“You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.” PeopleKnowsWorldDoneMotivationalSuccessCausesLeadershipWonderfulDiseaseCapitalismAreasInventionWonderful Things Author:Bill Gates
“Bearing in mind that "the market" is not an invention of capitalism but that it has existed for thousands of years in many different societies, social justice logically requires that the profits resulting from the operation of markets and infrastructures created by society be equitably shared within societies and in a larger context within the human family.” YearsMindHumansDifferentSocialJusticeCapitalismSocial JusticeProfitInventionOperationsInfrastructureHuman Family Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism. Unequal exchange is an ancient practice. What was remarkable about capitalism as a historical system was the way in which this unequal exchange could be hidden; indeed, hidden so well that it is only after five hundred years of the operation of this mechanism that even the avowed opponents of the system have begun to unveil it systematically.” WayYearsWellsUseOrderForcePartyPracticeFiveHundredCapitalismHistoricalAncientInventionOperationsOpponentsRemarkableMechanismTransactionsUse Of Force Author:Immanuel Wallerstein
“The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods” StillsPoliticalSocialTechnologyEconomicModernTypeDevelopmentSafeEqualCapitalismMethodPatternsExperimentsInventionCommunismPrimitiveAdjustmentScience And TechnologyModern Society Author:Ralph Linton
“The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. ... If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.” PeopleIfsWellsCivilizationCapitalismInventionSocialismWell BeingDawnContradictionImproving Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.” CenturyCivilizationCapitalismInventionCollectivism Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“What I have learned about corporate capitalism, roughly, is that it is an act of theft, by and large, through which a very few live very high off the work, invention, and creativity of very many others. It is the Grand Larceny of our particular time in history, the Grand Larceny in which a future of freedom which could have followed the collapse of feudalism was stolen from under our noses by a new bunch of bosses doing the same old things” CreativityParticularCapitalismInventionBunchCorporateNosesBossCollapseI Have LearnedStolenTheftOld ThingsFeudalismSame Old ThingLarceny Book:Dear America Source: Dear America