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“It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis.”

Enjoy Class Conditions Independent Crisis Prosperity Productions Permit Relative Capitalist Working Class Harbinger

Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: .. Karl Marx: Capital vol.II

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: .. Karl Marx: Capital vol.II

“If there are indeed any iron laws of history, one of them is surely that in any major crisis of the capitalist system, a sector of the liberal middle class will shift to the left, and then shift smartly back again once the crisis has blown over.”

Ifs Law Left Class Middle Majors Crisis Middle Class Iron Capitalist Back Again

Author:Terry Eagleton

“We believe that the developing crisis in the capitalist system, by which we mean both economic stagnation, and the social and political conflicts to which it gives rise, makes it possible to think in terms of developing a sizeable and serious revolutionary socialist party in a way that was not possible 20 or even 10 years ago.”

Thinking Way Giving Years Believe Mean Political Social Term Party Economic Serious Conflict Years Ago Crisis Developing Revolutionary Capitalist Socialist Stagnation Socialist Party

Author:Anthony Crosland

“Marxists have more than once pointed out that the capitalist world economic system contains in itself the seeds of a general crisis and of warlike clashes.”

World War Economic Cold Crisis Seeds Capitalist Cold War Clash Marxist Economic Systems

Author:Joseph Stalin

“There is no real answer [to the U.S. economic crisis] but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.”

Real Answers Principles Economic Crisis Remove Capitalist Socialist Bricks Rebuilding Economic Crisis

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“Ecology's implications for capitalism are too momentous for the capitalist to contemplate. The plutocrats are more wedded to their wealth than to the Earth upon which they live, more concerned with the fate of their fortunes than with the fate of humanity. The present ecological crisis has been created by the few at the expense of the many.”

Has Beens Earth Political Humanity Wealth Fate Capitalism Concerned Crisis Fortune Expenses Capitalist Contemplating Ecology Implications Ecological Ecological Crisis

Book:Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader

Source: Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader

“By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle.”

Mean Hands Social Taken Special Limits Function Crisis Productions Credit Driving Capitalist Vehicle Banking Distribution Banking System

Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3

“Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis. This is result of capitalism, a system based on prioritizing profits not human need where the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a capitalist elite.”

“For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s, but deepening in our time. Persistent economic stagnation together with neoliberal austerity has at this point seriously undermined the stability of the liberal-democratic state and thus the political command sector of the capitalist system. This has led to a dangerous resurgence of political movements in the fascist genus, representing an alternative way of managing the state of the capitalist system, opposed to liberal democracy.”

Together Political Democracy Economic Dangerous Capitalism Crisis Stability Capitalist Persistent Stagnation

Author:John Bellamy Foster

“This is the permanent tension that lies at the heart of a capitalist democracy and is exacerbated in times of crisis. In order to ensure the survival of the richest, it is democracy that has to be heavily regulated rather than capitalism.”

Heart Lying Order Democracy Survival Capitalism Crisis Permanent Tension Capitalist Times Of Crisis

Book:The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

Source: The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad

“My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.”

Knows World Ideas States Whole United United States Serious Crisis Driving Whole World Capitalist

Author:Fidel Castro