Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.
Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.
The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.
All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.
The globalized nature of production and innovation means that the benefits don't necessarily stay in the country where the investments are made.
The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.
Capitalism or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production.
For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of intellect - a more open veldt country where competition was keener between swiftness and stealth, and where adroitness of thinking played a preponderating role in the preservation of the species.
Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.
The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others,. . . the American way.
Equity, ownership, production fees, license fees: those are the vocabulary words that are exciting to me.
A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy.
Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation's economy. The issue of legal ownership is secondary; what counts is the issue of control. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to property-so long as the state res. . . erves to itself the unqualified right to regulate the use of their property.