“Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making State, it is not very available, nor is it surely enduring. But then, vision does not come with guarantees.” MenDoeWarStatesLastsVisionModernTerribleCapitalismDestructionRelationEndureAvailableGuaranteesSacramentsModern ManInterpersonal Author:Kenneth Rexroth
“One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced economies, many millions of people endure terrible economic and social deprivation, despite the incredible wealth all around them.” PeopleSocialWealthExistencePovertyMillionsEconomyEconomicTerribleCapitalismEndureIncrediblesExtremesDespiteContinuingDeprivationExtreme Poverty Book:Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism Source: Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism
“I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.” FeelsPersonsSometimesHomeTerribleExpectationsCapitalismSickProductivityProductiveHousewifeSick Person Author:Kate Zambreno
“It's a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order to buy the things that are desirable in our culture. So the degradation of motherhood - the sense that motherhood isn't itself a calling - also arises from economic pressure.” TwoOrderCultureParentEconomicTerribleCallingCapitalismPressureMotherhoodIncomeAriseCrueltyDesirableDegradationPredatory Author:James Hillman
“One of the popular views in the liberal circles of the West is that we are actually 'all victims of capitalism'. I disagree. This savage global capitalism is only one of the most terrible bi-products of the dominant Western culture of racism, greed, brutality and unbridled desire to control the world.” WorldDesireCultureViewsProductsTerribleRacismCapitalismVictimWestWesternGreedCirclesDisagreeSavagesDominantBrutalityWestern Culture Author:Andre Vltchek
“Capitalism has proven to be a far more terrible system than Marx could ever bring himself to imagine. Those who are so deluded as to find something good in it, or even feel loyalty toward it, are its most pitiful victims.” FeelsImagineTerribleCapitalismVictimLoyaltyProvenDeludedPitiful Author:Allen W. Wood
“It became obvious that we had completely failed to impose rules on unbridled speculative capitalism. That destroyed financial systems, hollowed out state systems and deeply shook German social stability. Can you recall the debate about "locust" hedge funds - even if it's a terrible term. The speculator capitalists roamed the land, stealing the substance from companies and throwing away the shells. And we were powerless.” TermTerribleCapitalismFinancialObviousDebateStealingFundStabilityCapitalistPowerless Author:Martin Schulz
“A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such as stocks or bonds) and the receipt of income on that wealth (such as dividends or interest). The financial system performs dismally at its advertised task, that of efficiently directing society's savings towards their optimal investment pursuits. The system is stupefyingly expensive, gives terrible signals for the allocation of capital, and has surprisingly little to do with real investment.” GivingLittlesRealInterestWealthCompanyTerribleCapitalismTasksInvestmentFinancialPursuitIncomeSavingExpensiveEnterpriseInvestorsOwnershipSignalsSavingsDividendsOptimalFinancial SystemReceiptsAllocation Author:Doug Henwood
“Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground.” GivingShouldWarSexMoralTerribleShotsCapitalismLuckBetrayalSupremeTriumphIndigenousProstitutionBad LuckCollaborators Author:Julie Burchill