“Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were uniquely hostile to a problem of this nature and magnitude-that moment being the tail end of the go-go '80s, the blastoff point for the crusade to spread deregulated capitalism around the world. Climate change is a collective problem demanding collective action the likes of which humanity has never actually accomplished. Yet it entered mainstream consciousness in the midst of an ideological war being waged on the very idea of the collective sphere.” WorldIdeasWarEndsMomentsProblemActionSciencePoliticalHumanitySocialNatureNaturalConsciousnessConditionsCapitalismCrisisClimateClimate ChangeSpreadLikesAround The WorldAccomplishedCollectivesMidstThat MomentSpheresMainstreamTailsHostile80sLapIdeologicalMagnitudeCrusadesSocial ConditionsCollective Action Author:Naomi Klein
“There is an unbroken chain of opposition to the introduction of economic freedom and to the capitalist autonomy of the economic sphere... In every case the opposition could only be overcome - peacefully or by force - because of the promise of capitalism to establish equality... That this promise was an illusion we all know.” KnowsForceCasesEconomicPromiseIllusionCapitalismOvercomingChainsOppositionSpheresCapitalistAutonomyIntroductionUnbrokenEconomic Freedom Book:The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism Source: The End of Economic Man: The Origins of Totalitarianism
“The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.” SocialExistenceConditionsCapitalismRelationLabourSpheresSocial Relations Author:David Harvey
“Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.” SocialPowerfulCapitalismImprovementInequalitySpheresTriumphantUnleashed Author:Herbert Schiller
“The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.” DoeStillsPoliticalValuesMoralIntellectualCapitalismDetermineArtisticSpheresInsistenceAmerican Capitalism Author:William Pfaff
“The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.” EndsFunCapitalismEndlessSpheresUnbearableSymbolic Author:Volkmar Sigusch
“In Cuba we had the most ferocious form of capitalism for 60 years. It dominated every sphere of life.” YearsFormCapitalismSpheresCuba Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of every sphere of the individuals life and the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its capacity as central board of production management.” MeanMatterGovernmentPoliticalIndividualEconomicCapitalismCapacityManagementProductionsSocialismConsumersBoardsEnterpriseVotersSpheresSovereigntySupremacyFree Enterprise Book:Bureaucracy Source: Bureaucracy