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“Marx, however imperfectly he worked out the details, set himself the task of discovering the law of motion of capitalism, and if there is any hope of progress in economics at all, it must be in using academic methods to solve the problems posed by Marx.”

Ifs Problem Law Progress Capitalism Economics Tasks Method Details Solve Academic Discovering Laws Of Motion

Book:Essay on Marxian Economics

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.”

Ideas Grows Easy Power Needed Capitalism Method Possession Finance Assets

Book:Improper behavior

Source: Improper behavior

“Capitalism, in its imperialist phase, is a system which considers war to be a legitimate instrument for settling international disputes, a legal method in fact, if not in law.”

Ifs War Facts Law Capitalism Method Instruments International Settling Phases Disputes In-laws

Author:J. Stalin

“Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.”

Steps Economic Capitalism Transformation Method Series Socialism Destined Economic Systems Interventionism

Book:Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism

Source: Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism

“Capitalism in its imperialistic stage is a system which regards war as a legitimate method for solution of international disputes - a method which is legitimate in fact if not legally so.”

Ifs War Facts Stage Solutions Capitalism Regard Method International Disputes

Author:Joseph Stalin

“The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning.”

Desire Strong Force Wealth Economy Violence Capitalism Weak Increase Method Satisfied Socialism Acquire Capitalist Petitions Capitalist Economy

Book:Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist

“One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary.”

Problem Hands Used Given Liberty Feet Economic Industry Capitalism Economics Stronger Method Solve Ties Declaring Hands And Feet

Book:The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought

Source: The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought

“In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social justice and greater regulation by the state, there are certain methods that are useful. What we need is a new society, a new civilization and convergence of all that is best in both [Communism and Capitalism]”

Needs States Philosophy Use Certain Social Justice Principles Greater Communication Civilization Models Capitalism Regard Method Social Justice Communism Regulation Convergence

Author:Mikhail Gorbachev

“The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not simply mass production, but mass production to satisfy the needs of the masses.”

Needs Principles Mass Capitalism Method Marketing Productions Features Characteristics Capitalist Mass Production

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.”

Has Beens Ideas Force Behinds Technology Progress Team Products Capitalism Innovation Method New Ideas New Technology New Products

Author:Manmohan Singh

“Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery.”

Development Capitalism Method Slavery Gentleman Refinement Feudalism

Author:Kwame Nkrumah

“The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods”