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“If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.”

Ifs World Should Humans Children States Today Law Social Causes Economy Economic Fit Capitalism Burden Remove Controlled Preacher Expanding Raising Children Inadequate Social Systems

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“What is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy, political systems, and social and cultural life, operating in close cooperation with powerful states that intervene massively in the domestic economy and international society.”

States Political Social Powerful Economy Society Huge Exercise Capitalism International Tyranny Corporate Accountability Cooperation Political Systems Economic Globalization

Book:Language and Politics

Source: Language and Politics

“Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and not merely contrary notions. There is no such thing as a mixed economy, a system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.”

Mean Two Social Economy Capitalism Organization Notion Patterns Productions Contrary Socialism Contradictory Midway Social Organization Capitalism And Socialism Mixed Economy

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”

Men Humans Doe Two Social Human Beings Capitalism Socialism Alternatives Cooperation Social Systems Disintegration Capitalism And Socialism

Book:Human action: a treatise on economics

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

“Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both.”

“In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social justice and greater regulation by the state, there are certain methods that are useful. What we need is a new society, a new civilization and convergence of all that is best in both [Communism and Capitalism]”

Needs States Philosophy Use Certain Social Justice Principles Greater Communication Civilization Models Capitalism Regard Method Social Justice Communism Regulation Convergence

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his unquestioning faith in the ability of the market to guide the system to its point of highest return. The market — that wonderful social machine — would take care of society's needs if it was left alone. "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production," he wrote.”

“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.”

Political Social Party Principles Pieces Capitalism Reform Liberalism Abandoned Machinery Corporatism Liberal Party

Author:Eric Kierans

“Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.”

Mean Social Economy Capitalism Labor Productions Division Cooperation Ownership Market Economy Division Of Labor

Book:Bureaucracy

Source: Bureaucracy

“The early industrialists were for the most part men who had their origin in the same social strata from which their workers came. They lived very modestly, spent only a fraction of their earnings for their households and put the rest back into the business.”

Men Social Capitalism Workers Household Earning Fractions

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Is still fulfilling its social function in supplying the consumers with more, better and cheaper goods.”

Stills Social Capitalism Function Consumers Goods Fulfilling Cheaper

Book:Planned Chaos

Source: Planned Chaos

“The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent on the will of the people as consumers. Thus, whenever there is a conflict between the consumers' views and those of the business managers, market pressures assure that the views of the consumers win out eventually.”

People Lasts Order Winning Social Decision Views Democracy Economic Conflict Capitalism Pressure Managers Consumers Analysis Dependent Social Order

Book:On the Manipulation of Money and Credit

Source: On the Manipulation of Money and Credit

“The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.”

Social Economy Capitalism Consumers Supremacy Market Economy Social Systems

Book:Money, method, and the market process: essays

Source: Money, method, and the market process: essays

“Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.”

Firsts Social Capitalism Historical Social Systems

Book:Capistalist Civilisation

Source: Capistalist Civilisation

“What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used (invested) in a very special way. It came to be used with the primary objective or intent of self-expansion. In this system, past accumulations were 'capital' only to the extend they were used to accumulate more of the same.”

Way Self Past Used Social Special Calling Capitalism Historical Objectives Primaries Expansion Accumulation Social Systems

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by the non-availability of one of more elements of the process - the accumulated stock in a money form, the labor-power to be utilized by the producer, the network of distributors, the consumers who were purchasers. One or more elements were missing because, in previous historical social systems, one or more of these elements was not commodified or was insufficiently commodified.”

Form Social Process Missing Elements Capitalism Labor Direct Historical Absence Producers Consumers Interfere Interference Availability Social Systems Distributors Purchasers

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy.”

World Wish Social Cases Economy Materials Periods Capitalism Historical Consideration Capitalist World Economy

Book:Capistalist Civilisation

Source: Capistalist Civilisation

“The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening within the 'middle classes' - that is, to that ten to fifteen percent of the population of the world-economy who consumed more surplus than they themselves produced. Within this sector there really has been a relatively dramatic flattening of the curve between the very top (less than one percent of the total population) and the truly 'middle' segments, or cadres (the rest of the ten to fifteen percent).”

“We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can be sure some new historical order will emerge. We cannot be sure what that order will be. Concretely, we may symbolize the first bifurcation as the effect of the world revolution of 1968 which continued up to and including the so-called collapse of the communisms in 1989, the social bifurcation.”

World Years Firsts May Seems Lasts Order Social Process Effects Revolution Capitalism Historical Including Communism Midst Collapse Bifurcation

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“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?”

“Just as any revolution eats its children, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself.”

Children Long Social Term Revolution Essentials Capitalism Long Term Fundamentalism Dynamism Social Capital

Author:Mark Carney

“Modern capitalism, organising the reduction of all social life to a spectacle, cannot offer any spectacle other than that of our own alienation.”

Social Modern Offers Capitalism Alienation Reduction Social Life

Author:Attila Kotanyi

“The free market is notorious for distributing resources in a highly unequal manner, with great concentrations of wealth at the top and poverty at the bottom. Our social programs, modest compared to those of many other Western countries, play an important role in redistributing some of those resources from the haves to the have-nots.”

Important Country Play Social Wealth Poverty Roles Capitalism Resources Program Western Bottom Concentration Modest Free Market Notorious Social Programs Concentration Of Wealth

Author:Linda McQuaig

“If you want poor people to work you restore their incentive by giving them less, such as by cutting social services. If you want rich people to work you restore their incentive by giving them more, such as by cutting taxes.”

People Ifs Want Giving Social Poor Rich Cutting Taxes Capitalism Poor People Incentives Rich People Social Service

Author:Jim Stanford

“The statement, "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to cut social spending" is presented as an objective assessment of our situation. But can you imagine a media commentator making the following assertion? "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to raise taxes on the rich."”

Problem Choices Social Situation Rich Cutting Imagine Media Taxes Capitalism Raises Following Extremes Debt Spending Statements Objectives Assertion Commentators Assessment

Author:Linda McQuaig

“A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism.”

Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

“The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods”

“Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.”

Individual Social Rights Capitalism Property Including Recognition Property Rights Individual Rights Social Systems

Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American men who failed. With wit and sympathy, Sandage illuminates the grey world of credit evaluation, a little studied smothering arm of capitalism. This is history as it should be, a work of art exploring the social cost of our past.”

“In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called ‘social democracy.’ . . . We are in a deadly race between politics and technology. . . . The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism.”

“Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in realizing one’s being and in achieving one’s own perfection within the fixed parameters that one’s individual nature and the group to which one belonged clearly defined. Economic activity, work, and profit were justified only in the measure in which they were necessary for sustenance and to ensure the dignity of an existence conformed to one’s own estate, without the lower instinct of self-interest or profit coming first.”

“Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be changed, we need a theory of revolutionary ecology that will encompass social and biological issues, class struggle, and a recognition of the role of global corporate capitalism in the oppression of peoples and the destruction of nature.”

“Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.”

People Together Social Involved Capitalism Productions Factories Social Relationships

Author:C. L. R. James

“Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.”

Kind Culture Social Pleasure Common Emotion Capitalism Satisfaction Envy Acquire Glamour Recognise

Author:John Berger

“We've now become conscious of the uncalculated social, economic, and environmental costs of that kind of "unconscious" capitalism. And many are beginning to practice a form of "conscious capitalism," which involves integrity and higher standards, and in which companies are responsible not just to shareholders, but also to employees, consumers, suppliers, and communities. Some call it "stakeholder capitalism."”

“Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small, critical choices that can tip economic and social factors in positive ways.”

Way Order Choices Social Natural Business Economic Capitalism Institutions Critical Factors Social Order Upheaval Sudden Change Uprooting

Author:Paul Hawken

“Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.”

Individual Force Social Rights Capitalism Recognition Bans Individual Rights Laissez Faire Social Systems Social Relationships Laissez Faire Capitalism

Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles and wars against imperialism. A 'neutral' position is tantamount to support of imperialism.”

War Social Support Struggle Position Source Capitalism Direct Active Oppressed Imperialism Against War Unequivocal

Author:Leon Trotsky

“The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce wages, and against the class 'techniques' for increasing productivity... but also around the question of the technical-social division of labor that prevails om enterprises, and against bourgeois ideology and repression.”

“Capitalism is a social cancer. It has always been a social cancer. It is the disease of society. It is the malignancy of society.”

Social Disease Capitalism Cancer Malignancy

Author:Murray Bookchin

“Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care.”

Care Social Poverty Promise Capitalism Standing Extremes Health Care Limitation Extreme Poverty

Author:Paul Farmer

“Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.”

Dream Politics Social Economic Theory Capitalism Engines American Dream Highways Free Market Mobility Economic Theory Free Market Capitalism Social Mobility

Author:George W. Bush

“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

“I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It's the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.”

Thinking Way Different War Seems Age Social Achieve Solutions Capitalism Nuclear Socialism Contradiction Bows Arrows Coexist Social Systems Bows And Arrows Capitalism And Socialism

Author:Fidel Castro

“We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally.”

Needs Firsts Enough Social Economy Capitalism First Time Europe Democrat Convinced Decades Germany Market Economy Tamed

Author:Sigmar Gabriel

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