I think capitalism will survive, because no attractive alternatives exist now
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.
Only in time of peace can the wastes of capitalism be tolerated.
The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.
Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped thinking about eternity. They began to concentrate on hours, measurable hours,man-hours, using labor more efficiently.
You just overwhelm the system with so many dependents and so many middle class benefits having to be paid that the money isn't there. It causes a system-wide collapse, capitalism implodes upon itself, and somebody comes into the breach and restructures the government as a socialist utopian paradise - and the guy's dead serious about it.
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.
Net - the biggest word in the language of business.
Wars are fought for oil wells and coaling stations; for control of the Dardanelles or the Suez Canal; for colonial pickings to buy cheap in and conquered markets to sell dear in. War is capitalism with the gloves off.
Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.
I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.
Capitalism would self-destruct in no time. So the business classes have always demanded strong, straight intervention to protect the society from the destructive effects of market forces because they don't want everything destroyed.
In capitalism, profit does not come out of another man's hardship; it comes out of new production of new wealth that's never existed before.
Free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity!
. . . just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.