We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.
The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more inclined to seek a rough settlement of difficulties without diplomatic subtlety and finesse. All that does not change the fact that American capitalism operates according to the same laws as the others, is confronted with the same fundamental problems, and is headed toward the same catastrophe.
I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.
Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of capitalism, preferring instead to lay out, calmly and ruthlessly, his reasons for believing that it is destined to be replaced by socialism. And that is why Nietzsche mocks Christianity for portraying its crucified Saviour as bait wriggling on a hook to catch unsuspecting souls.
You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism. ; you know that all men today enjoy a higher standard of living than your ancestors did before the age of capitalism. But how do you know that you are the one out of ten who would have lived in the absence of capitalism? The mere fact that you are living today is proof that capitalism has succeeded, whether or not you consider your own life very valuable.
The kind of capitalism I hate most is crony capitalism, the friends who decide. These are things which should be killed in Russia.
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.
The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.
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.
Cinema is capitalism in its purest form. . . . There is only one solution - turn one's back on American cinema.
True # anarchism will be # capitalism , and true capitalism will be anarchism.
Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.
I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.
Capitalism is a purely cultic religion, perhaps the most extreme that ever existed.
Any capitalism is superior to feudalism.
Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.
Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.
Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.