The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not.
Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist Party, with Soviet Russia behind it, had thrown its whole weight against the revolution. It was the Communist thesis that revolution at this stage would be fatal and that what was to be aimed at in Spain was not workers' control, but bourgeois democracy. It hardly needs pointing out why 'liberal' capitalist opinion took the same line.
The capitalist system, in spite of all obstacles put in its way by governments and politicians, has raised the standard of living of the masses in an unprecedented way.
There is no real answer (to the U. S. economic crisis) but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.
One of the most ironic things about capitalism is that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself with. Actually they will give you the money to make a movie that makes them look bad, if they believe they can make money off it.
I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.
Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.
In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.