“Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.” NationsBitsViolenceModernSlaveryUnionsFruitChinaGenocideSovietCapitalistExploitationSoviet UnionMaoAbhorrent Author:Terry Eagleton
“Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize the "establishment" which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than a capitalist.” MenHandsStrongQualityModernLoversHumanitarianPracticalsMaterialismEstablishmentCapitalistMechanicPragmaticIdealistModern SocietyGadgetsPragmatismMechanizationNoblesse Oblige Author:Elizabeth Gould Davis
“I think historically modern economics, capitalist economics, tends to erode moral categories... And this is where I think the right gets capitalism wrong. They kind of assume that there is a moral equivalence or moral valence to capitalism, but I tend to think that economics erodes all the kind of cultural taboos and inhibitions and values it comes into contact with.” ThinkingKindValuesMoralModernCapitalismEconomicsAssumingContactCategoriesCapitalistTabooInhibitionsErode Author:Michael Pollan
“The dilemma of modern society: the conflict between the need for capital formation at a high rate and the popular condemnation of interest and dividends as "unearned income" and "capitalist," if not as sinful and wicked.” IfsNeedsInterestModernConflictRateIncomeWickedCapitalistDilemmaFormationCondemnationModern SocietyDividends Author:Peter Drucker