“Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.” AgeDemocracyOffersCapitalismWeakActiveDigitalRepresentativesCitizenshipMandatesDigital AgeDeliberationCitizenryActive Citizenship Author:Don Tapscott
“Capitalism offers nothing but frustrations and rebuffs to those who wish - because of claimed superiority of intelligence, birth, credentials, or ideals - to get without giving, to take without risking, to profit without sacrifice, to be exalted without humbling themselves to understand others and meet their needs.” NeedsGivingWishSacrificeBirthOffersCapitalismIdealsProfitFrustrationSuperiorityExaltedHumblingCredentialsWithout SacrificeRebuff Book:The Spirit of Enterprise Source: The Spirit of Enterprise
“The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us.” IfsSeemsMovingCultureOpportunityFailingOffersCapitalismMereProsperitySomething New Book:The Joy of the Gospel Source: The Joy of the Gospel
“The mode of reconciling the promise of ever-increasing reward for the cadres and the demands of the working classes for a quid pro quo for their loyalty to the state was to offer the latter a small piece of the pie.” StatesClassPiecesPromiseOffersDemandCapitalismRewardsLoyaltyLatterPieWorking ClassSmall PiecesCadreQuid Pro Quo Author:Immanuel Wallerstein
“Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.” SocialModernOffersCapitalismAlienationReductionSocial Life Author:Attila Kotanyi
“I am now a fundamentalist American; give me time and I will tell you why individualism, laissez-faire and the slightly restrained anarchy of capitalism offer the best opportunities for the development of the human spirit.” GivingHumansSpiritOpportunityDevelopmentOffersCapitalismGive MeAnarchyIndividualismHuman SpiritFundamentalistLaissez FaireBest OpportunityLaissez Faire Capitalism Author:Rose Wilder Lane
“Jeff Klein, one of the earliest champions of Conscious Capitalism, offers a highly practical yet profoundly intuitive blueprint for achieving your purpose-and making a difference at work. You will return to Working for Good again and again. It belongs on your desk and in your heart.” HeartPurposeDifferencesAchieveReturnOffersConsciousCapitalismPracticalsChampionMaking A DifferenceAgain And AgainDesksIntuitiveBlueprints Author:Patricia Aburdene
“Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.” ThinkingKnowsWantHumansEnoughTodayFacesLeftDemocracyRightsOffersCapitalismToleranceSocialismOld DaysMarxistHuman FacesLiberal Democracy Author:Slavoj Žižek