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“The principal impact of foreign enterprise on the development of the underdeveloped countries lies in hardening and strengthening the sway of merchant capitalism, in slowing down and indeed preventing its transformation into industrial capitalism.”

Country Lying Development Capitalism Transformation Down And Impact Enterprise Principal Slow Down Merchants Preventing Strengthening Slowing Underdeveloped Countries

Book:Political Econ of Growth

Source: Political Econ of Growth

“The transformation of capitalism is unstoppable because we need limits on resources for humans to survive.”

Needs Humans Growth Limits Capitalism Resources Transformation Consumption Unstoppable

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology.”

Problem Political Intellectual Capitalism Transformation University Socialism Communism Threatened Interference Financing Isms Intellectual Freedom

Author:Serge Lang

“Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.”

Steps Economic Capitalism Transformation Method Series Socialism Destined Economic Systems Interventionism

Book:Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism

Source: Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism

“After reading The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi, I realized that capitalism did not naturally grow as [Karl] Marx would imply by his theory of historical materialism. People were dragged into capitalism screaming, shouting, and fighting all along the way, trying to resist this industrial and commercial world.”

People World Way Trying Fighting Reading Grows Theory Capitalism Transformation Historical I Realized Materialism Shouting

Author:Murray Bookchin

“Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.”

“A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point of time served as a mythologized foil against which to treat the empirical reality of the present.”

Whole Reality Majors Capitalism Treats Transformation Variety Capitalist Foils

Book:Capistalist Civilisation

Source: Capistalist Civilisation

“We must distinguish between the kind of structural transformation that would leave in place (even increase) the realities of the exploitation of labor, and one that would undo this kind of exploitation or at least radically reduce it”

Kind Reality Capitalism Labor Increase Transformation Exploitation

Book:Capistalist Civilisation

Source: Capistalist Civilisation

“The collapse of the world's banking system and the impending disaster of accelerating climate change are not separate phenomena. They are simply the most visible symptoms of a particular model of capitalism that will bring civilisation to its knees. But those symptoms will not get sorted unless and until we commit to a radical transformation of the way we create and distribute wealth in the world today”