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“No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury.”

Interest Sin Economy Economic Century Building Activity Capitalism Bases Fortune Investment Western Capitalist Lending Usury Irrepressible Capitalist Economy

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“Communists are great capitalists, so there is no threat anymore.”

Threat Communist Capitalist

Author:Lech Walesa

“That was a piece I did in 1963 with Konrad Lueg in a department store, in the furniture department. It was announced in some papers as an exhibition opening, but the people who came didn't know that it was to be a sort of Happening. I don't think it is quite right that it has become so famous anyhow. It was just a lot of fun, and the word itself, Capitalist Realism, hit just right. But it wasn't such a big deal.”

People Thinking Knows Art Bigs Fun Deals Pieces Paper Happenings Stores Opening Department Capitalist Realism Papers Furniture Big Deal Exhibitions Department Stores

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“I originally came from Dresden, where Socialist Realism prevailed. Konrad Lueg and I came up with it, for the most part ironically, since I now live in capitalism. It was certainly 'realism', but in another form - the capitalist form, as it were. It wasn't meant that seriously. It was more a slogan for that particular Happening at a furniture store.”

Art Form Particular Happenings Capitalism Stores Capitalist Realism Socialist Furniture Slogans Dresden

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations.”

Today Certain Culture Situation Wife Century Workers Factories Capitalist Nineteenth Century Materialistic Preoccupation Factory Workers

Book:Abundance for What?

Source: Abundance for What?

“The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become shameless hacks or are crushed.”

May Art Artist Talent Willing Type Tools Method Complicated Educated Rebel Capitalist Machinery Monopoly Crushed Hacks Shameless Employing

Author:Che Guevara

“The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses. . . . It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man. Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls.”

“The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.”

Study Economics Defense Excess Capitalist Ideological Brainwashing

Author:David Korten

“Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.”

Years Economy Progress Communication Population Capitalist Infrastructure Electronic Communication

Author:Mary Douglas

“Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.”

Men Real Asks Poor Liberty Weak Russia Ignorant Capitalist

Book:Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch

Source: Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch

“The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.”

Doe Facts Values Taken Advantage Obvious Labour Capitalist Surplus Workmen Taken Advantage

Book:My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes

Source: My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes

“Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it exist at all? It's hard to answer the question if you don't know what money actually is. Proposing to eliminate it entirely seems utopian and naive.”

Ifs Knows Looks Hard Problem Seems Answers Particular Revolution Function Revolutionary Capitalist Naive Utopian

Author:David Graeber

“My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.”

Would Be Individual Process Loss Views Achieve Function Mere Planning Capitalist Initiative Socialist Entering Absorbing Central Planning Interim

Author:John Grierson

“While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt.”

Ifs Believe Heart Problem I Believe Okay Capitalist No Problem Profitable Not Okay Commercialization Profitable Business

Author:Chetan Bhagat

“As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.”

World Life Ends Moving Fashion Permanent Logical Capitalist Orderly Moving In

Author:Cees Nooteboom

“The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power.”

Has Beens Century Crime Committed Communism Consideration Passages Dedicated Capitalist Twentieth Century Idealist Contemptuous Stalin And Hitler

Author:Eric Hoffer

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