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“We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a world confrontation. The strategic end of this struggle should be the destruction of imperialism. Our share, the responsibility of the exploited and underdeveloped of the world, is to eliminate the foundations of imperialism: our oppressed nations, from where they extract capital, raw materials, technicians, and cheap labor, and to which they export new capital-instruments of domination-arms and all kinds of articles, thus submerging us in an absolute dependence.”

Source: Guerrilla Warfare

“Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.”

Decision Power Share Economic Perspective Capitalism Affected Makers Engagement Decision Makers

Author:Barney Frank

“Capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for a share of the available wealth. A few people accumulate big piles, but most do not. The sense of community falls victim to this struggle.”

People Men Bigs Fall Community Wealth Struggle Share Capitalism Fellows Victim Competition Available Every Man

Book:Sixty stories

Source: Sixty stories

“The successful sale of British Telecom... reveals a vast and untapped yearning among ordinary people for a direct stake in the ownership of British enterprise. Investment in shares has begun to take its place, with ownership of a home and either a bank or building society deposit, as a way for ordinary people to participate in enterprise and wealth creation. We are seeing the birth of people's capitalism.”

“We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come to profiting from it are a few miserable shares of stock in a company that doesn't pay large enough dividends to keep a small mouse in cheese. The truth is, most of us are job serfs. At a time when invested capital returns 20 to 30 percent, we have no capital. We only have our wages and salaries, and a debt so high that something like 20c on every dollar we earn is spent to pay off what we owe.”

Source: Left at the post

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.”

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Our capitalistic scheme in the latter years of the 20th century seems to have lost its way. We've had a "pathalogical change" from traditional owners capitalism where most of the rewards have gone to those who make the investments and assume the risks to a new and deeply flawed system of managers capitalism where the managers of our corporations our investment system, and our mutual funds are simply take too large a share of the returns generated by our corporations and mutual funds leaving the last line investors - pension beneficiaries and mutual fund owners at the bottom of the food chain.”

Risk Share Capitalism Assuming Investment Bottom Leaving Fund Mutual Investors 20th Century Flawed Pension Food Chain Mutual Fund

Author:John C. Bogle

“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

“The total dividend income declared in 1995 by the bottom 9.7 million Canadian tax-filers (47% of all those submitting tax returns) was $310 million. The estimated dividend income received by the Thomson family in 1995 from its 72% ownership share of the Thomson Corporation and its 22% ownership share of the Hudson's Bay Company was $310 million.”

Company Millions Share Return Taxes Capitalism Bottom Income Corporations Ownership Dividends Tax Returns

Author:Jim Stanford

“Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils.”

World Way Different Matter Share Capitalism Socialism Different Ways Spoil Lifeless

Book:The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

Source: The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

“...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.”

World Humans Littles Self Helping Speak Effort Liberty Rights Share Capitalism Responsible Human Rights Population Conservative Excellent Credentials Little Help

Author:Margaret Thatcher