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“We need to take a close look at the relationship between the economic system of Capitalism and the political system of Democracy. A democracy with high concentrations of private wealth buys votes and interferes with the ability of Capitalism to perform well. It is no longer one citizen, one vote.”

Needs Wells Looks Political Wealth Ability Democracy Economic Citizens Capitalism Vote Concentration Interfere Political Systems Economic Systems

Author:Philip Kotler

“The difference between capitalism and feudalism is that under capitalism, they make money directly through wages, manufacturing, and commerce and under feudalism, it's directly through juro-political means.”

Mean Political Differences Capitalism Making Money Commerce Wages Manufacturing Feudalism

Author:David Graeber

“For me, it was always clear that Toni Erdmann is more a film about what globalization, capitalism, does with private relationships much more than making a "political" film. It's more interesting to raise questions, because I don't feel in a position to "make a statement" with the film. Toni Erdmann comes from a completely different generation then his daughter, it's the post-war generation, they were very politically engaged. They raised their children with a lot of human worldviews, sent them out in the world believing in a world without borders.”

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Author:Maren Ade

“People should absolutely have a point of view about the political process themselves individually, but we're also at a point in the evolution of capitalism where any one individual's impacts are over estimated because there is enough regulation and guard rails. They may be odious and grotesque in what they say, but the practical day-to-day impacts from a policy perspective tend to be limited because the system made it so. That's why you see a lot of political apathy because people have internalized the inability for anyone either really really good or really really bad to do anything.”

People Enough Political Policy Perspective Evolution Capitalism Point Of View Apathy Rail

Author:Chamath Palihapitiya

“For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s, but deepening in our time. Persistent economic stagnation together with neoliberal austerity has at this point seriously undermined the stability of the liberal-democratic state and thus the political command sector of the capitalist system. This has led to a dangerous resurgence of political movements in the fascist genus, representing an alternative way of managing the state of the capitalist system, opposed to liberal democracy.”

Together Political Democracy Economic Dangerous Capitalism Crisis Stability Capitalist Persistent Stagnation

Author:John Bellamy Foster

“As a political activist you run the risk of having to settle for one compromise or another in order to achieve your goals. Artists face the obvious accusation of elitism. The fundamental principle of my work is that it critiques capitalism in very specific ways. I am not interested in generalized political rhetoric. Instead of "aestheticizing" political issues, I try to challenge ingrained perspectives.”

Trying Running Political Artist Goal Challenges Risk Achieve Perspective Capitalism Obvious Compromise Settling Activist Not Interested Rhetoric Critique Accusation Elitism

Author:Josephine Meckseper

“If you're going to point out the ridiculousness of a rule, it's naïve to think that you can break it. It's the same way that rappers have embraced capitalism. Some people say they liked it better when rap was a literal protest form in the '90s. But I think it's more a form of protest today, because it's telling the story of what happens once something forbidden is within reach. I think rap is more political today when it speaks about luxury watches than it does about fighting the power.”

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Author:Chilly Gonzales

“Fascism is capitalism in decay.”

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Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”

Political Politics Freedom Revolution Capitalism Remains Slave Ancient Communism Greek Owners Republic Communist Tyrants Individualism Capitalist Ancient Greek Slave Owners

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.”

Important Government Political Politics Struggle Too Much Conditions Capitalism Important Things Communism Get Better Engaged Not Interested Living Conditions Capitalism And Communism

Author:Bernard Baruch

“Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.”

“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.”

“Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.”

“The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.”

“Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.”

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Book:Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.”

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.”

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Book:Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)

Source: Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)

“One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.”

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Book:The Jungle

Source: The Jungle

“We are paying a heavy political price for 20 years in which, as a party, we have played down our criticism of capitalism and soft-peddled our advocacy of socialism”

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Author:Tony Benn

“What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close cooperation with powerful states that intervene massively in the domestic economy and international society.”

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Book:Language and Politics

Source: Language and Politics

“Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of every sphere of the individuals life and the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its capacity as central board of production management.”

Mean Matter Government Political Individual Economic Capitalism Capacity Management Productions Socialism Consumers Boards Enterprise Voters Spheres Sovereignty Supremacy Free Enterprise

Book:Bureaucracy

Source: Bureaucracy

“Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.”

Government Political Economy Capitalism Tyranny Socialism Representatives Market Economy Representative Government

Book:Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses

Source: Planning for Freedom: Let the Market System Work : a Collection of Essays and Addresses

“There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way neglect political work among the peasants during the co-operative movement and for a very long period after.”

Ifs Way Wells Long Political Movement Serious Periods Capitalism Socialism Tendencies Communism Neglect Peasants

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

Source: The Churchill Wit

“It is only in revolutionary struggle against the capitalists of every country, and only in union with the working women and men of the whole world, that we will achieve a new and brighter future-the socialist brotherhood of the workers.”

“Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power. The kind of economic organization that provides economic freedom directly, namely, competitive capitalism, also promotes political freedom because it separates economic power from political power and in this way enables the one to offset the other”

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.”

Men Wells Philosophy Political Capitalism Economics Socialism Reverse Exploitation

Book:Funeral In Berlin

Source: Funeral In Berlin

“The main propoganda trick of supporters of the allegedly "progressive" policy of government control is to blame capitalism for all that is unsatisfactory in present-day conditions and to extol the blessings of socialism. They have never attempted to prove their fallacious dogmas, all they did was to call their adversaries names and cast suspicion upon their motives. And, unfortunately, the average citizen cannot see through these stratagems. The liars must be afraid of the truth and are therefore driven to suppress its pronouncement.”

“Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the world has ever known.”

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Author:Johan Norberg

“With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.”

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Author:Ralph Raico

“Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.”

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Author:Alan Greenspan

“The Liberal Party abandoned the principles of reform and social liberalism and has become, instead, just another piece of political machinery in the service of corporatism.”

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Author:Eric Kierans

“The largest 100 corporations hold 25 percent of the worldwide productive assets, which in turn control 75 percent of international trade and 98 percent of all foreign direct investment.The multinational corporation...puts the economic decision beyond the effective reach of the political process and its decision-makers, national governments.”

“In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production”

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Book:Planned Chaos

Source: Planned Chaos

“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.”

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Book:The Chomsky Reader

Source: The Chomsky Reader

“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.”

“The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who were pursuing the accumulation of capital for its own sake.”

States Political Ought Concepts Capitalism Sake Involvement Accumulation Political Involvement

Book:Capistalist Civilisation

Source: Capistalist Civilisation

“It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular sovereignty the new moral justification for the political system of historical capitalism.”

Political Moral Revolution Concepts Capitalism Impact Historical Justification Sovereignty Political Systems Catalyst French Revolution Renovation Popular Sovereignty

Book:Capistalist Civilisation

Source: Capistalist Civilisation

“But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call the unruly mixture of freedom and government controls that made up our economic and political system during the last three decades, one cannot call it capitalism.”

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Author:Yaron Brook

“Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.”

Mean Action Political Choices Opportunity Politics Individual Freedom Responsibility Liberty Bears Capitalism Consequence Burden Inseparable Individual Liberty

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Whoever is not prepared to talk about capitalism should also remain silent about fascism.”

Should Political Silence Capitalism Prepared Silent Fascism Political Ideology

Author:Max Horkheimer

“It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.”

World Ends Political Imagine Easier Capitalism Critics End Of The World Theorists Political Ideology

Author:Fredric Jameson

“Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to discern the truth in collective enterprise and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise.”

Political Found Individual Truth Is Capitalism Traditional Enterprise Collectives Marxism Partial Truth

Book:Search for the beloved community: the thinking of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: Search for the beloved community: the thinking of Martin Luther King, Jr

“Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Ethics should precede economics. But it doesn't have to. . . . We know this because we've seen the results of capitalism without conscience: the pollution of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat; the endangerment of workers; and the sale of dangerous products - from cars to toys to drugs. All in pursuit of ever-greater profits.”

“Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.”

People Ifs Would Be Funny Political Politics Business Economy Capitalism Good Business

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism.”

Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

“The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods”

“It (the Chinese move to embrace capitalism in 1989) is a mirror of the corporatist state first pioneered in Chile under Pinochet: a revolving door between corporate and political elites who combine their power to eliminate workers as an organized political force. The creation of today's market society was not the result of a sequence of spontaneous events but rather of state interference and violence.”

“We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There is a serious mismatch between the political and the economic conditions that prevail in the world today.”

World Today Political Speak Democracy Economic Conditions Serious Capitalism Investing Triumph World Today Mismatch

Book:Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered

Source: Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered

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