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“The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.”

Knows Individual Common Company Capitalist Joints Joint Stock Company

Book:Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

Source: Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production

“Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual.”

Individual Focused Gym Capitalist Breakdown

Author:Jenny Hval

“The elimination of individual capitalists and the replacement of private capitalism by state capitalism in Russia has not in the least altered the typical helpless and authoritarian character structure of the masses of people.”

People States Character Individual Mass Capitalism Structure Russia Capitalist Helpless Typical Altered Elimination Replacements

Author:Wilhelm Reich

“Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.”

Individual Realizing Transformation Conservative Disaster Capitalist Surplus Indictment

Author:Benjamin Graham

“Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.”

Way Individual Class Conditions Behave Permit Capitalist Reproduction

Author:David Harvey

“Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.”

Way Individual Capitalism Capitalist

Author:David Harvey

“There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil; it is they who are responsible for the woes of mankind. The dismissal of the individual's responsibility for his own misery is the quintessence of clericalism.”

Evil Individual Responsibility Mankind Responsible Misery Paint Capitalist Woe Vulgar Strain Incarnation Bourgeois Moralist Quintessence Dismissal

Book:Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is irrational.”

Individual Capitalism Assuming Core Rational Capitalist Irrational Critique Marxist

Book:The Political Economy of International Relations

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations

“Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.”

Use Political Individual Difficult Cases Rights Impossible Information Source Citizens Intelligent Objectives Conclusion Capitalist Political Rights

Book:The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It

“The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to receive the wages they demand. They act as they have been trained to act by capitalist society, which denies the doctrine of the Just Price, which proclaims work to be an evil and the goal of human endeavor to be the avoidance of it; which puts it up as an ideal that individuals should get as much money as they possibly can out of their fellows by any means in their power.”

“Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production.”

May Reason Law Order Individual Social Wealth Poverty Becoming Increase Productions Miserable Capitalist Inexorable

Book:The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies

Source: The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies