“Not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use. For this is the only means that capitalism has at its disposal to achieve the level of devaluation now required. The idea is dreadful in its implications. What better reason could there be to declare that it is time for capitalism to be gone, to give way to some saner mode of production?” WayGivingMeanIdeasReasonUseLevelsGoneAchieveWeaponsCapitalismPaidProductionsLabourImplicationsSurplus Author:David Harvey
“Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.” KnowsWayDoePoorLevelsRichEconomicConscienceCapitalismResourcesFlowPermitDoomedPrivilegedRiches And PoorsEconomic Resources Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Despite his profound incompetence on many levels, Obama has been an adept propagandist who has blamed capitalism for problems caused and magnified by socialist remedies to justify further socialist solutions. He's now doing the same thing all over again as his new socialist solutions are failing.” Has BeensProblemLevelsFailingSolutionsCapitalismProfoundDespiteJustifyRemedySocialistIncompetenceAdeptPropagandist Author:David Limbaugh
“I think on the efficiency level, not only the distribution level, capitalism is a flawed system. It probably has the same virtues as Churchill attributed to democracy: It's the worst system except for any other. And I think that's right, but it cannot be thought that some unmitigated belief in free markets is a cure even from the efficiency point of view.” ThinkingBeliefLevelsViewsVirtueDemocracyWorstCapitalismPoint Of ViewCuresEfficiencyDistributionFree MarketFlawed Author:Kenneth Arrow
“So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism, but he had made an erroneous assessment of China's actual situation. In the first place, the targets of the revolution were wrongly defined, which led to the effort to ferret out "capitalist roaders in power in the Party". Blows were dealt at leading cadres at all levels who had made contributions to the revolution and had practical experience, including Comrade Liu Shaoqi.” FirstsMadeOrderLevelsPartyEffortSituationRevolutionCapitalismConcernedIncludingBlowChinaPracticalsDefinedContributionTargetCapitalistChairmanRestorationAssessmentComradeMaoAvertFerretsChairman MaoCadrePractical Experience Author:Deng Xiaoping
“Capitalism is the only engine credible enough to generate mass wealth. I think it's imperfect, but we're stuck with it. And thank God we have that in the toolbox. But if you don't manage it in some way that incorporates all of society, if everybody's not benefiting on some level and you don't have a sense of shared purpose, national purpose, then it's just a pyramid scheme.” IfsThinkingWayEnoughPurposeWealthLevelsMassCapitalismStuckManageThank GodEnginesImperfectSchemesPyramidsCredibleToolboxPyramid Schemes Author:David Simon
“It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.” LawLevelsSupportIndustryCapitalismWagesUnwrittenAmerican Capitalism Author:Christopher Lasch
“Capitalism has been interpreted as an exclusively profit-centric human engagement. Some have been saying to bring people and planet into the picture. This can be a good change, but it is still not fully operationalized. Are you putting people, planet and profit at the same level?” PeopleHumansHas BeensStillsLevelsPlanetsCapitalismProfitEngagementGood Change Author:Muhammad Yunus
“So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they also encouraged, in their employment patters and through their influence in the political arena, recognition of defined ethnic groups, seeking to link them to specific allocated roles in the labor-force, with different levels of real remuneration for their work. Ethnicity created a cultural crust which consolidated the patterns of semi-proletarian household structures.” DifferentRealAgePoliticalForceLevelsRolesGroupsInfluenceCapitalismLaborStructurePatternsSeekingGenderEmploymentDefinedRecognitionDivisionLinksHouseholdArenaEmployersEthnicityDifferent LevelsFosteringEthnic GroupsDivision Of LaborRemunerationLabor Force Author:Immanuel Wallerstein
“It is historically the case that virtually every new zone incorporated into the world-economy established levels of real remuneration which were at the bottom of the world-system's hierarchy of wage-levels.” WorldRealLevelsCasesEconomyCapitalismBottomZoneHierarchyWorld EconomyRemuneration Book:Capistalist Civilisation Source: Capistalist Civilisation
“To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that honor life, serve life's needs, and restore money to its proper role as servant. I believe we are in fact being called to take a step to a new level of species consciousness and function.” WorldLifeNeedsBelieveFactsValuesI BelieveInspiringLevelsMoneyConsciousnessStepsRolesHonorCreatingCapitalismFunctionInstitutionsSpeciesServantReplacedFlourishingNext LevelRestoringProsperingSystemic ChangeService And Sacrifice Author:David Korten
“Democracy suits Europeans today partly because it is associated with the triumph of capitalism and partly because it involves less commitment or intrusion into their lives than any of the alternatives. Europeans accept democracy because they no longer believe in politics. It is for this reason that we find both high levels of support for democracy in cross-national opinion polls and high rates of political apathy.” BelieveReasonTodayPoliticalLevelsAcceptingOpinionSupportDemocracyCommitmentCapitalismCrossesRateSuitsAlternativesTriumphApathyPollsHigh LevelIntrusionOpinion Polls Author:Mark Mazower
“Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist, that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established at every level. [...] Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I am opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy.” IfsThinkingPoliticalTermCommunityLevelsPrinciplesDemocracyEconomicIndustryMajorsCapitalismInstitutionsObedienceCorporationsFascismStrictPointlessFascistsParticipants Author:Noam Chomsky