“The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more inclined to seek a rough settlement of difficulties without diplomatic subtlety and finesse. All that does not change the fact that American capitalism operates according to the same laws as the others, is confronted with the same fundamental problems, and is headed toward the same catastrophe.” DoeFactsProblemLawLandCapitalismDifficultyStrongerFundamentalsIgnorantRoughCapitalistCatastropheSubtletySettlementDiplomaticCounterpartsFinesseAmerican Capitalism Author:James P. Cannon
“Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.” MayLandCapitalismDestructionSpeculationQuagmire Author:David Harvey
“To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.” KindUseLandLimitsCapitalismAcknowledgeFarmingLand Use Author:Wendell Berry
“As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities, so capitalism retained the essential usurpations of feudalism, though professing to guard personal freedom, and to observe equity between the owner and the occupier of the land, the employer and the employed.” CommunityPracticeLandEssentialsElementsCapitalismTraditionSlaveryOwnersCustomsPrimitiveEmployedEquityEmployersPersonal FreedomFeudalismUsurpationFeudal System Author:Joshua K. Ingalls
“Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force.” MeanForceCommonLandCapitalismRemainsPlantSocialismGermanyEtcItalianFascismSovietFactoriesOwnershipTransportationMeans Of Transportation Author:Joseph Stalin
“We must pay close attention to those with another imagination: an imagination outside of capitalism, as well as communism. We will soon have to admit that those people, like the millions of indigenous people fighting to prevent the takeover of their lands and the destruction of their environment - the people who still know the secrets of sustainable living - are not relics of the past, but the guides to our future.” PeopleKnowsWellsStillsPastFightingImaginationPaySecretAttentionMillionsEnvironmentLandCapitalismDestructionGuidesCommunismOur FutureIndigenousRelicsIndigenous PeopleSustainable LivingTakeovers Author:Arundhati Roy
“Capital, never concerned with distribution, is now less and less concerned with production. Capital is driving for power, for the control over markets, lands, resources. Capital, in corporate hands, can move anywhere and thus demand and get the utmost in concessions and privileges as well as the freedom to operate in the interest of ever-increasing wealth and assets.” WellsHandsMovingInterestWealthLandDemandCapitalismResourcesConcernedPrivilegeProductionsDrivingCorporateAssetsDistributionConcessions Author:Eric Kierans
“A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right - which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism. The libertarian faith in the mind of man is rejected by religionists who have faith only in the sins of man. . . . The libertarian insistence that each man is a sovereign land of liberty, with his primary allegiance to himself, is rejected by patriots who sing of freedom but also shout of banners and boundaries.” MenMindFaithLeftSinLibertyPracticeModernLandRevolutionCapitalismLibertarianBoundariesPrimariesEnterpriseHave FaithIndividualismLibertarianismRejectedPatriotSovereignAllegianceCollectivismBannerInsistenceProtectionism Author:Karl Hess