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“History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.”

Political History Conditions Capitalism Sufficient Political Freedom

Author:Milton Friedman

“Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were uniquely hostile to a problem of this nature and magnitude-that moment being the tail end of the go-go '80s, the blastoff point for the crusade to spread deregulated capitalism around the world. Climate change is a collective problem demanding collective action the likes of which humanity has never actually accomplished. Yet it entered mainstream consciousness in the midst of an ideological war being waged on the very idea of the collective sphere.”

“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.”

People Persons Political Conditions Capitalism Standing Organization Trade Unions Tendencies Betray Privileged Divorced Bureaucrats Trade Unions

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Certainly the worker has nothing to lose by a change from government and capitalism to a condition of no government, of anarchy.”

Government Loses Conditions Capitalism Workers Anarchy Anarchism Nothing To Lose

Book:What is Communist Anarchism?

Source: What is Communist Anarchism?

“The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.”

Social Existence Conditions Capitalism Relation Labour Spheres Social Relations

Author:David Harvey

“Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.”

Politics Economy Conditions Century Capitalism Aspect Universal Liberalism Protest

Book:Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1533-1556

Source: Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1533-1556

“Indeed, I find it illuminating to consider to what extent our "classical conditions" for economic growth are satisfied in the current, monopolistic phase of capitalism.”

Growth Economic Conditions Capitalism Currents Satisfied Phases Economic Growth Illuminating

Book:Political Econ of Growth

Source: Political Econ of Growth

“We should understand that in the context of the US, where our legal system is based in settler colonialism, capitalism and white supremacy, changing laws will never sufficiently change the conditions of harm and violence our movements seek to transform.”

Should Law White Violence Conditions Movement Capitalism Harm Colonialism White Supremacy Supremacy Legal System Settlers

Author:Dean Spade

“It is a democratic uprising. I'd say a democratic revolution against imperialism and against capitalism. So the agreements between us, more than that, any cooperation means unconditional credit, while the US and some capitalist countries want to help us under conditions, under blackmail.”

Want Mean Country Helping Conditions Revolution Capitalism Democratic Credit Agreement Cooperation Capitalist Imperialism Unconditional Uprising Blackmail

Author:Evo Morales

“The great multinationals are unwilling to face the moral and economic contradictions of their own behavior - producing in low-wage dictatorships and selling to high-wage democracies. Indeed, the striking quality about global enterprises is how easily free-market capitalism puts aside its supposed values in order to do business. The conditions of human freedom do not matter to them so long as the market demand is robust. The absence of freedom, if anything, lends order and efficiency to their operations.”

“If capitalism worked as the socialists think an economic system ought to work, and provided a constant equality of living conditions for all, regardless of whether a man was able or not, resourceful or not, diligent or not, thrifty or not, if capitalism put no premiums on resourcefulness and effort and not penalty on idleness or vice, it would produce only an equality of destitution.”

“Capitalism has taught us that markets are always more efficient than hierarchical managerial coordination. But in a situation where those three conditions aren't met, I can't outsource or partner with you because markets don't function in the absence of sufficient information.”

I Can Three Situation Conditions Information Taught Mets Capitalism Function Absence Partners Sufficient Efficient Taught Us Coordination

Author:Clayton Christensen