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“Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.”

Real Fun Possibility Capitalism

Author:James Surowiecki

“Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in human history. There isn't the slightest possibility that its (in my view, horrendous) ideas would be implemented, because they would quickly destroy any society that made this colossal error. The idea of 'free contract' between the potentate and his starving subject is a sick joke, perhaps worth some moments in an academic seminar exploring the consequences of (in my view, absurd) ideas, but nowhere else.”

“The more the development of late capitalism renders obsolete or at least suspect the real possibilities of self, self-fulfillment and actualization, the more they are emphasized as if they could spring to life through an act of will alone.”

Ifs Real Self Possibility Development Late Spring Capitalism Fulfillment Suspects Obsolete Actualization Self Fulfillment

Author:Richard Rosen

“Capitalism created the possibility of employment.”

Possibility Capitalism Employment

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The future of private enterprise capitalism is also the future of a free society. There is no possibility of having a politically free society unless the major part of its economic resources are operated under a capitalistic private enterprise system.”

Economic Possibility Majors Capitalism Resources Enterprise Free Society Private Enterprise Economic Resources

Book:Tax limitation, inflation and the role of government

Source: Tax limitation, inflation and the role of government

“The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.”

Want Needs Giving Feels Stuff Sin Simple Grace Possibility Objects Materials Capitalism Silly Heroic Urgency Civics Silly Stuff

Author:Adam Gopnik

“It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from what sense of political outrage or injury? And in that way, the possibility of sympathetic identification was foreclosed. That does not mean that some people took quiet pleasure in certain icons of US capitalism coming down, even though they would oppose such action on moral and political grounds.”

People Way Mean Doe Action Political Certain Asks Pleasure Moral Possibility Quiet Capitalism Injury Icons Sympathetic Outrage Identification

Author:Judith Butler

“The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.”

Liberty Possibility Capitalism Ideology Expansion Connoisseur

Book:Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

Source: Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

“Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.”

People Mean Today Law Powerful Possibility Survival Mass Capitalism Consequence Competition Powerless Excluded Survival Of The Fittest Marginalized Economic Justice Economy Today

Book:The Joy of the Gospel

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“Are there still other possibilities? Of course there are. What is important to recognize is that all three historical options are really there, and the choice will depend on our collective world behavior over the next fifty years. Whichever option is chosen, it will not be the end of history, but in a real sense its beginning. The human social world is still very young in cosmological time. In 2050 or 2100, when we look back at capitalist civilization, what will we think?”

“America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.”

Ifs Way Government America Used Individual Accepting Practice Risk Possibility Theory Capitalism Consequence Rewards Reap

Author:Larry Elder

“I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.”

Needs Believe Long I Believe Democracy Economic Possibility Capitalism Gender Capitalist Gender Equality Elude Elude Us Economic Equality Racial Equality

Author:Angela Davis