“Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.” DemocracyRichMinoritiesCapitalistInsignificant Author:Vladimir Lenin
“In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.” PeopleFirstsDemocracyRichPeriodsFirst TimeMajorityCommunismMinoritiesTransitionCapitalistDictatorshipWretchedSuppressionProletariat Author:Vladimir Lenin
“The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a socialist central committee. The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility.” SelfStatesLastsSocialResultsClassDemocracyHabitDisciplineAuthorityRootsObedienceAcquireCapitalistRulersSocialistCommitteesSelf DisciplineWorking ClassBourgeoisReplacementsOld HabitsServilitySocial Democracy Author:Rosa Luxemburg
“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.” ChildrenCountryWisdomPoliticsWealthEconomyDemocracyCapitalismDemocraticSocialismLiberalismCapitalistDistributionDemocratic SocialismDistribution Of WealthSocial DemocracyCapitalism And Socialism Book:From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice Source: From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice
“Surely there is not a capitalist or well-informed person in this world today who believes that [World War I] is being fought to make the world safe for democracy. It is being fought to make the world safe for capital.” WorldBelieveWellsPersonsWarTodayDemocracyThis WorldSafeCapitalismWar Of The WorldsCapitalistWorld War IWorld Today Author:Rose Pastor Stokes
“The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.” MadeDemocracyBloodMankindSlaveSeedsCurseSweatCapitalistPigsPenniesSticky Author:Joseph Goebbels
“If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the falsified democracy of bourgeois states). There remains the anarchism which acts by means of persuasion, by the creation of small groups and networks, denouncing falsehood and oppression, aiming at a true overturning of authorities of all kinds as people at the bottom speak and organize themselves.” PeopleIfsKindMeanStatesSpeakMoralDemocracyGroupsCreationAuthorityRemainsDemocraticBottomViolentAll KindsOppressionCapitalistFalsehoodOrganizePersuasionHostileAnarchismBourgeoisSmall GroupsPacifist Author:Jacques Ellul
“I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of property, you've got something. So every man a capitalist, and every man a man of property.” IfsMenWantDemocracyMen And WomenCapitalismPropertyEvery ManCapitalistEarningHousing Author:Margaret Thatcher
“Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.” DemocracyImpossibleCapitalismInjusticeTyrannyRealmsCapitalistPoorest Author:Hugo Chavez