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“The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached.”

Two Democracy Century Capitalism Experiments Broads Trends Regulation Twentieth Century Deregulation

Book:The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Revised Edition)

Source: The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Revised Edition)

“The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.”

Problem Nations Social Century Capitalism Civilized Sanity Individualism Twentieth Century Nineteenth Century Social Problems Aberration Civilized Nations

Author:Albion Woodbury Small

“The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.”

Challenges Decision Century Produce Capitalism Financial Architecture Twentieth Century Degenerates

Author:Will Hutton

“The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of capitalism and establishment of societies run by and for the working class in the two great communist revolutions in Russia and China.”

“If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.”

Ifs Has Beens Fantasy Century Figures Capitalism Argument Planning Socialism Contests Twentieth Century Demonstrating Hayek Central Planning Knockouts

Author:Kenneth Minogue

“It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made toward the cultivation of unbounded desire. We must appreciate this to realize that late modern consumption, consumption as we now know it, is not fundamentally about materialism or the consumption of physical goods. Affluence and consumer-oriented capitalism have moved us well beyond the undeniable efficiencies and benefits of refrigeration and indoor plumbing.”

“Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.”

Political Certain Values Practice Technology Century Revolution Fit Limits Capitalism Overcoming Democratic Complexes Extensions Twentieth Century Predatory Advanced Technology

Book:The Chomsky Reader

Source: The Chomsky Reader

“This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.”

Has Beens Process Century Position Capitalism Argument Capitalist Twentieth Century Accumulation Meritocracy

Book:Capistalist Civilisation

Source: Capistalist Civilisation

“Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.”

Women Growth Century Fashion Industry Late Capitalism Sexy Significant Britain Twilight Minors Twentieth Century Underwear

Book:Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

Source: Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

“And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivism-you can't find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand.”

Looks Jobs Moral Cases Century Capitalism Experiments Thinker Good Job Twentieth Century Describing Collectivism Better Jobs Pitfalls Articulating

Author:Paul Ryan

“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism, but to a pure capitalist revolution. It runs in parallel with world-wide capitalist domination which, by successive steps, eliminates old feudal and Asiatic forms in various zones. While the historical situation in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries caused the capitalist revolution to take liberal forms, in the twentieth century it must have totalitarian and bureaucratic ones.”