“This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the old Soviet Union. This is what investors do in free enterprise and capitalism system. [...[ And, yes, free enterprise system can be cruel. But the problem with this administration is that small businesses are the one who had suffered the most, the kind that need investors, the kinds that don't need the hundreds of pages, thousands of pages of regulations that continue to plague them and have them hold back on the hiring investment.” WorldNeedsKindHas BeensI CanProblemCompanyRepublicanPagesCapitalismUnionsInvestmentAdministrationEnterpriseInvestorsSovietRegulationRecallsSoviet UnionSmall BusinessPlagueHiringPlaces In The WorldFree Enterprise Author:John McCain
“If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.” PeopleIfsThinkingTwoBrainGrewGrew UpCapitalismWingsUnionsKillingTwo ThingsSovietDictatorshipSoviet UnionMarxismLiberatingRight WingBrazilCzechoslovakiaControlling Everything Author:Jose Padilha
“The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted - or rather tend to be corrupted - by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, i.e., privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people.” PeoplePersonsPoliticalConditionsCapitalismStandingOrganizationTradeUnionsTendenciesBetrayPrivilegedDivorcedBureaucratsTrade Unions Author:Vladimir Lenin
“Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this approach takes monopolistic capitalism for granted, and accepts the unnatural division between property and responsibility as permanent. A much more radical solution is apt to come, and this may take either of two forms.” MayTwoWisdomFormPoliticsHoursResponsibilityAcceptingEconomyHigherDemandApproachSolutionsCapitalismLaborPropertyUnionsGrantedRadicalPermanentLiberalismInsecurityDivisionWagesUnnaturalPensionLabor Union Author:Fulton J. Sheen
“Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.” Has BeensForceSocialImpossibleEssentialsCapitalismTradeUnionsDecentSocial ChangeHumaneSemblanceTrade UnionsHumane Society Author:Pope Francis
“The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue.” WorldMayMadePoliticalPoliticsEffortEconomicProduceEssentialsCapitalismTraditionStructureCompetitionUnionsWesternSocialismMade ItCommunismFascinatingDivisionCommunistSovietBrutalDictatorSoviet UnionObserversMonopolySurvivingHumaneDisadvantagesPolitical PowerWestern WorldApproximationDispassionate Author:John Dos Passos
“The underlying issue is the system of capitalism itself, and under this system the best means for regulating or checking their power is not relying on a government which represents the interests of the rich but for millions of working people to become politically active in workplaces and communities through building unions and our own political party.” PeopleMeanGovernmentPoliticalInterestCommunityPartyMillionsIssuesRichBuildingCapitalismUnionsActiveWorkplacePolitical Parties Author:Kshama Sawant
“The Bolshevik revolution was a counter-revolution. Its first moves were to destroy and eliminate every socialist tendency that had developed in the pre-revolutionary period. Their goal was as they said; it wasn't a big secret. They regarded the Soviet Union as sort a backwater. They were orthodox Marxists, expecting a revolution in Germany. They moved toward what they themselves called "state capitalism," then they moved on to Stalinism. They called it democracy and called it socialism. The one claim was as ludicrous as the other.” FirstsSaidStatesBigsMovingGoalSecretDemocracyRevolutionPeriodsCapitalismClaimsMovedUnionsSocialismTendenciesRevolutionaryGermanyOrthodoxSovietExpectingSocialistThey SaidSoviet UnionMarxistMoved OnStalinismBolsheviks Author:Noam Chomsky
“I've lived long enough to see the triumph of zealots and absolutists, to watch money swallow politics, to witness the rise of the corporate state. See the party of working and poor people become a sycophant of crony capitalism. Watch the union of church and state become fashionable again. Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn't drift; I moved left just by standing still.” PeopleLongStillsStatesEnoughLeftChurchPoorPartyWatchesStreetsWallNewsCapitalismStandingMovedUnionsEverydayCastsEntertainmentShipsWitnessTriumphCorporatePoor PeopleChurch And StateFashionablePiratePredatorOverboardStanding StillZealotCroniesCouplingSycophantsCrony Capitalism Author:Bill Moyers
“The European Union is effectively a union dominated by the German political and economic elite. Its main function is to serve as a nucleus for financial capitalism and to ease the road for that capitalism. The other functions just irritate everyone: it's undemocratic; decisions are not made by parliament; the European Parliament is not sovereign.” MadePoliticalDecisionEconomicCapitalismFunctionUnionsFinancialEaseElitesSovereignParliamentEuropean UnionNucleus Author:Tariq Ali
“In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.” CountryLiteratureDemocracyCapitalismUnionsCommunismSovietSoviet UnionAmerican Capitalism Author:Fran Lebowitz
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” IfsFirstsWorkExistenceHard WorkHigherDeserveCapitalismLaborIndependentUnionsFruitSuperiorsCivil WarConsiderationLabourOrganizeIndependent WomenLabor UnionLabor DayOrganized LaborLabour DayHappy Labor DayUnionismLabor Day WishesLabour Day WeekendFruit Of LaborDignity Of WorkLabor And Capital Author:Abraham Lincoln
“It is only in revolutionary struggle against the capitalists of every country, and only in union with the working women and men of the whole world, that we will achieve a new and brighter future-the socialist brotherhood of the workers.” MenWorldInspirationalCountryWholePoliticalStruggleAchieveRevolutionFutureMen And WomenCapitalismUnionsWorkersSocialismWhole WorldCommunismRevolutionaryChanging The WorldBrotherhoodCapitalistSocialistSolidarityBrighterRevolutionary WarBright FutureWorking WomenBrighter Future Author:Alexandra Kollontai
“We who are members of the Communist Party repudiate the exclusive identification of democracy with capitalism. We declare that democracy can be widened, take on new aspects, become truly a rule of the people, only when it is extended to the economic life of the people, as in the Soviet Union. As far as women are concerned, the U.S.S.R. is a trailblazer for equal rights and equal opportunities.” PeopleOpportunityWomenPartyDemocracyRightsEconomicEqualMembersCapitalismConcernedAspectUnionsCommunistSovietSoviet UnionExclusiveEqual RightsIdentificationEqual OpportunityCommunist PartyTrailblazers Author:Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
“No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control of income and prices. Otherwise the struggle for more consumption and more income to sustain it-a struggle that modern corporations, modern unions and modern democracy all facilitate and encourage-will drive up prices. Only heavy unemployment will then temper this upward thrust. Not many wish to confront the truth that the modern economy gives a choice only between inflation, unemployment, or controls.” WayGivingDoeChoicesWishStruggleEconomyDemocracyModernPoliticianCapitalismPraiseUnionsHeavyIncomeEmploymentCorporationsTemperStableConsumptionUnemploymentInflationThrustFacilitateCombining Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“If capitalism is fair then unionism must be. If men and women have a right to capitalize their ideas and the resources of their country, then that implies the right of men and women to capitalize their labor.” IfsMenIdeasCountryMen And WomenCapitalismResourcesFairsLaborUnionsLabor UnionOrganized LaborUnionismUnion SolidarityLabor And Capital Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.” ArtLiteratureSportsEnvironmentCapitalismLaborUnionsLiberatingTotalitarianismLabor Union Author:Eric Hoffer
“If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.” IfsMeanBigsGivenDecisionMillionsCapitalismUnionsWorkersConsumersCorporationsThreateningDiscussingExaminingBig Corporations Author:Max Lerner
“Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration.” FirstsCapitalismLaborUnionsFruitCivil WarConsiderationLabourOrganizeIndependent WomenLabor UnionLabor DayOrganized LaborLabour DayHappy Labor DayUnionismLabor Day WishesUnion SolidarityLabour Day WeekendFruit Of LaborDignity Of WorkLabor And Capital Author:Abraham Lincoln