Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.
America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a very aggressive form of capitalism and consumerism against what might be called a kind of moral or civic impulse.
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
At the heart of capitalism is the unification of knowledge and power. As Friedrich Hayek, the leader of the Austrian school of economics, put it, "To assume all the knowledge to be given to a single mind. . . is to disregard everything that is important and significant in the real world. " Because knowledge is dispersed, power must be as well.
As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.
Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.
In fact, Capitalism has a vested interest in creating new wants and making people unhappy until they acquire the next good.
Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
The capitalism we are in now is already coming to an end
But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.
Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.
We've now become conscious of the uncalculated social, economic, and environmental costs of that kind of "unconscious" capitalism. And many are beginning to practice a form of "conscious capitalism," which involves integrity and higher standards, and in which companies are responsible not just to shareholders, but also to employees, consumers, suppliers, and communities. Some call it "stakeholder capitalism. "
Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.
A new poll out taken by a Republican group that shows most Democrats prefer socialism to capitalism. Those terms don`t mean what they did maybe 40, 50 years ago.
I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.
If I can't have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan.
Capitalism, in contrast, has existed for fewer than 300 years. If the entire history of Homo sapiens was a 24-hour day, then capitalism has existed for two minutes.
Capitalism is being attacked not because it is inefficient or misgoverned but because it is cynical. And indeed a society based on the assertion that private vices become public benefits cannot endure, no matter how impeccable its logic, no matter how great its benefits.
What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.