“We reform the system. We save capitalism from its own excesses.” CapitalismReformExcess Author:Robert Reich
“What the Democrats have to understand is that while we do need to reform our regulation and we do need more restrictions, it is true that it is capitalism and free enterprise and companies that create jobs and wealth for every American.” NeedsJobsWealthCompanyCapitalismDemocratReformEnterpriseRegulationRestrictionFree Enterprise Author:Michael Bloomberg
“I think there is a legitimate critique of reformism, as a politics that is content with making small changes in society without asking for bigger and deeper changes. And revolutionary reforms, meaning actions that we take in small ways to make the world a better place and disrupt some of the ways that capitalism is reproduced.” ThinkingWorldWayActionCapitalismBiggerAskingDeeperReformRevolutionaryBetter PlaceCritiqueSmall ChangesChanges In Society Author:Cynthia Kauffman
“There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution. Whereas reformists are winning small gains, revolutionaries don't want people to be satisfied with those small victories because they worry this will lead to acceptance of the bigger picture of capitalism domination, and so they find a way to turn every victory into a defeat. In the book, I call for a culture of declaring victory wherever we can.” PeopleWayWantBookTurnsCultureWinningLeftWorryAcceptanceRevolutionVictoryCapitalismGainsBiggerDefeatSatisfiedReformRevolutionaryRelatedNormDominationBeing AfraidDeclaringBinaryBigger PictureSmall Victories Author:Cynthia Kauffman
“So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.” IfsWantCountryIndividualNationsLibertyFailingStrangeSucceedCapitalismFoundationMissionsReformBarackReconstructionIndividual Liberty Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing.” PeopleSelfCapitalismCorruptionReformLegacyEuphemism Author:James Surowiecki
“...the transition from capitalism to Socialism and the liberation of the working class from the yoke of capitalism cannot be effected by slow changes, by reforms, but only by a qualitative change of the capitalist system, by revolution. Hence, in order not to err in policy, one must be a revolutionary, not a reformist.” OrderClassPolicyCommunicationRevolutionCapitalismSocialismReformLiberationRevolutionaryTransitionCapitalistWorking ClassYokeQualitative Author:J. Stalin
“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.” PoliticalSocialPartyPrinciplesPiecesCapitalismReformLiberalismAbandonedMachineryCorporatismLiberal Party Author:Eric Kierans
“It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow of capitalism, was to save its antagonist, both in war and in peace - that is to say, by providing it with the incentive, fear, to reform itself after the Second World War, and, by establishing the popularity of economic planning, furnishing it with some of the procedures for its reform” WorldWarResultsEconomicCenturyObjectsStrangeRevolutionCapitalismPlanningReformIronyWar Of The WorldsLastingProvidingPopularityIncentivesProceduresOctoberSecond World WarAntagonistOctober Revolution Author:Eric Hobsbawm
“For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.” SituationClassCapitalismWeightWorkersTyrannyChainsReformSufficientCrushLabourWorking Class Author:Clara Zetkin