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“The will of the capitalist is certainly to take as much as possible. What we have to do is not to talk about his will, but to enquire about his power, the limits of that power, and the character of those limits.”

Character Limits Capitalism Capitalist

Book:Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

Source: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

“The transformation of capitalism is unstoppable because we need limits on resources for humans to survive.”

Needs Humans Growth Limits Capitalism Resources Transformation Consumption Unstoppable

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“To have good farming or good land use of any kind, you have got to have limits. Capitalism doesn't acknowledge limits.”

Kind Use Land Limits Capitalism Acknowledge Farming Land Use

Author:Wendell Berry

“People used to make their own clothes, now they buy clothes. People used to take care of their own kids, now they pay other people do it. And that was because capitalism requires more and more things being turned into money - being turned into profit. But that has reached this absurd limit where there's nothing left to turn into money, and the capitalist system is breaking down.”

People Care Kids Used Turns Left Pay Limits Clothes Capitalism Profit Take Care Absurd Capitalist Breaking Down

Author:Daniel Pinchbeck

“But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from feudalism to capitalism, and from capitalism to Communism.”

May Mean Courses Democracy Stage Communication Development Limits Capitalism Communism Feudalism

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Capitalism and the thirst for profit without limits of the capitalist system are destroying the planet...Climate change has placed all humankind before a great choice: to continue in the ways of capitalism and death, or to start down the path of harmony with nature and respect for life.”

Way Choices Energy Path Environment Planets Limits Capitalism Harmony Climate Climate Change Profit Destroying Capitalist Humankind Thirst

Author:Evo Morales

“The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.”

“Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.”

Political Certain Values Practice Technology Century Revolution Fit Limits Capitalism Overcoming Democratic Complexes Extensions Twentieth Century Predatory Advanced Technology

Book:The Chomsky Reader

Source: The Chomsky Reader

“If we return to the two faces of individualism - individualism as the spur of energy, initiative, and imagination; and individualism as the limitless struggle of all against all - it can be seen how the two practices emerge from and limit the extend of the disequilibrating impact of the contradiction involved in the geocultural agenda.”

Ifs Two Faces Energy Imagination Practice Struggle Return Involved Limits Capitalism Impact Contradiction Agendas Individualism Initiative Limitless Spurs

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if history were any guide, from the top. It would come through citizen's movements, educating, organizing, agitating, striking, boycotting, demonstrating, threatening those in power with disruption of the stability they needed.”

Ifs Given Democracy Movement Needed Citizens Limits Capitalism Guides Nationalism Stability Threatening Disruption Demonstrating

Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“Capitalism brainwashes us through advertising and the skewing of priorities .... We need economies that promote human values, seek to limit suffering, and are committed to democratic principles, rather than ones dependent on global trade and a blind commitment to neo-liberal economic policies.”

“Capitalism can no more be 'persuaded' to limit growth than a human being can be 'persuaded' to stop breathing. Attempts to 'green' capitalism, to make it 'ecological', are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.”

Humans Growth Human Beings Limits Capitalism Green Endless Breathing Anarchy Doomed Ecological Market Economy Manipulative Multinationals

Author:Murray Bookchin

“To speak of ‘limits to growth’ under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well-meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be ‘persuaded’ to limit growth than a human being can be ‘persuaded’ to stop breathing. Attempts to ‘green’ capitalism, to make it ‘ecological’, are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth.”

“Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.”

Two Dies Grows Limits Capitalism Myth Odds Ecology Imperatives Ecological Interdependence Coexist

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin