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“[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.”

Needs Feels Left Rocks Late Intellectual Capitalism Fabric Bourgeois

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“At this late stage in the history of American capitalism I'm not sure I know how much testimony still needs to be presented to establish the relation between profit and theft.”

Knows Needs Stills Know How Stage Late Capitalism Relation Profit Not Sure Testimony Theft American Capitalism

Book:Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

Source: Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion

“The more the development of late capitalism renders obsolete or at least suspect the real possibilities of self, self-fulfillment and actualization, the more they are emphasized as if they could spring to life through an act of will alone.”

Ifs Real Self Possibility Development Late Spring Capitalism Fulfillment Suspects Obsolete Actualization Self Fulfillment

Author:Richard Rosen

“...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was sitting in a bar here in Davos with Bono. Late at night, after a few drinks, he was on fire, talking about how we could get a percentage of each purchase from civic-minded companies to help change the world. He kept calling people, waking them up, and handing me the phone to show me the interest.”

“Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we see it now - because racism was created to justify slavery to build the capital for capitalism - and back in the day they respected talent over race. We had an African Pope in the late 5th century, we had an African Emperor of Rome, and early church Fathers were black.”

Knows Age Father Black Church Race Century Talent Late Racism Capitalism Slavery Greek Justify Rome Pope Emperor Back In The Day Church Fathers

Author:Immortal Technique

“It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made toward the cultivation of unbounded desire. We must appreciate this to realize that late modern consumption, consumption as we now know it, is not fundamentally about materialism or the consumption of physical goods. Affluence and consumer-oriented capitalism have moved us well beyond the undeniable efficiencies and benefits of refrigeration and indoor plumbing.”

“The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.”

World Economy Products Late Concepts Capitalism Universal Capitalist Formal Formal Education World Economy

Book:Capistalist Civilisation

Source: Capistalist Civilisation

“Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.”

Women Growth Century Fashion Industry Late Capitalism Sexy Significant Britain Twilight Minors Twentieth Century Underwear

Book:Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

Source: Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

“Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American men who failed. With wit and sympathy, Sandage illuminates the grey world of credit evaluation, a little studied smothering arm of capitalism. This is history as it should be, a work of art exploring the social cost of our past.”

“Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.”

Late Capitalism Consequence Accidents Shallow Marxist Uniformity

Book:Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous

Source: Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous