“Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.” WayPoliticalSocialGrowthBreakEconomicPeriodsCapitalismScalesSocialismExpansionEconomic GrowthIdeologicalFetters Author:Earl Browder
“...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so large a scale -- would make them pause and check their statist premises. Instead, blind to everything but their hatred for capitalism, they are now asserting that 'poverty breeds wars' ... But the question is: What breeds poverty? If you look a the world of today and if you look back at history, you will see the answer: the degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.” IfsWorldLooksWarCountryTodaySufferingGoalAnswersPovertyDegreesEvidenceCapitalismHatredBlindProsperityScalesChecksPausesPremisesMagnitudeUnspeakable Author:Ayn Rand
“We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.” OpportunityCommunityTechnologyEffectsCapitalismRateScalesValleysUnprecedentedSiliconPositive ChangeSilicon Valley Author:Justin Rosenstein
“The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase of capitalism. It is totally inconsistent with democracy as well as with sustainability. What we have is capital working on a global scale, totally uprooted, with accountability nowhere, with responsibility nowhere, and with rights everywhere. This new capital, with absolute freedom and no accountability, is structurally anti-life, anti-freedom.” WellsKindDifferentWholeTodayResponsibilityDemocracyRightsSeeingCapitalismResourcesAbsolutesPropertyScalesAccountabilitySustainabilityPhasesExpansionInconsistentAbsolute Freedom Author:Vandana Shiva
“Speaking as a New Yorker, I found it a shocking and terrifying event [9/11], particularly the scale of it. At bottom, it was an implacable desire to do harm to innocent people. It was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment.” PeopleWorldHeartDesireFoundMilitaryEventsCapitalismTradeBottomHarmScalesInnocentSymbolsEstablishmentShockingNew YorkersPentagonWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterHeadquartersAmerican MilitaryAmerican Capitalism Author:Edward Said
“Neither capitalism nor socialism is capable of meeting our unprecedented global challenges. Both came out of early industrial times, and we are now well into the post-industrial age. Both came out of times when the West still oriented much more to the domination side of the social scale, so both these theories did not pay attention to caring for people and nature.” PeopleWellsStillsAgeSocialSidesChallengesPayAttentionTheoryCapableCapitalismMeetingsWestCaringScalesSocialismPostsPay AttentionDominationUnprecedented Author:Riane Eisler
“If you establish, or reestablish, local economies on the right scale and with the right standard, then politics would come right as a matter of course. I don't know what you'd call the result - probably not capitalism or socialism.” IfsKnowsMatterCoursesResultsEconomyStandardsCapitalismScalesSocialismLocals Author:Wendell Berry
“Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism.” IfsHumansMeanTodayUsedFantasyCapitalismScalesUsed To BeBehaveRealismSoberProfitableApocalypticUnimaginableDevastation Author:Terry Eagleton
“Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.” IfsEssentialsCapitalismIdealsInstrumentsScalesPlanningDictatorshipEnforcementFree MarketCoercionLarge ScaleCentral Planning Author:Friedrich August von Hayek