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“The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences.”

Source: Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time

“Capitalism's biggest political enemies are not the firebrand trade unionists spewing vitriol against the system but the executives in pin-striped suits extolling the virtues of competitive markets with every breath while attempting to extinguish them with every action.”

Action Political Enemy Virtue Capitalism Breaths Trade Suits Executives Attempting Pins Political Enemies

Book:Saving Capitalism From The Capitalism

Source: Saving Capitalism From The Capitalism

“Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a new, crucial question: how did antebellum Protestants parse capitalism? For anyone who seeks to understand the political economy of the antebellum era-or, indeed, the complex entanglement of Christianity and capitalism today-this book is critical. I, for one, am very grateful to Stewart Davenport for having written it.”

“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.”

Believe Reason Today Political Levels Accepting Opinion Support Democracy Commitment Capitalism Crosses Rate Suits Alternatives Triumph Apathy Polls High Level Intrusion Opinion Polls

Author:Mark Mazower

“Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not socialists or communists, we are proponents of regulated capitalism and, I might add, people who have read American history.”

People Needs Might Political Simple Capitalism Add Democratic Libertarian Communist American History Premises Political Systems Populism

Author:Molly Ivins

“It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations”

People Government Political Politician Capitalism Corporations Globalization Disadvantages Economic Globalization

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Political Term Community Levels Principles Democracy Economic Industry Majors Capitalism Institutions Obedience Corporations Fascism Strict Pointless Fascists Participants

Author:Noam Chomsky

“It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.”

Problem Action Political Fighting Community Essentials Intellectual Capitalism Aspect Remains Aquariums Community Action

Author:Barney Frank

“Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.”

Political Moral Expression Intellectual Capitalism Ideals Individualism Collectivism

Author:Ayn Rand

“For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.”

War Political Peace Business Capitalism

Author:Karl Liebknecht

“There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less government, and maintain the traditions of society (at least in America's case). However, we must face the cultural contradiction of capitalism: the progress of capitalism, which necessitates a consumer culture, undermines the values which render capitalism possible”

Want Government Today America Faces Political Values Culture Social Cases Progress Capitalism Tradition Consumers Liberalism Contradiction Family Values Consumer Culture

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population. The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed. This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.”

“Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.”

Political Common Failing Capitalism Crisis Stupidity Common Sense Communism Italian

Author:William C. Brown