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• Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven’t had capitalism.

  Ron Paul

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• What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

  Raymond Williams

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• Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism ‘inevitably’ caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

  A. J. P. Taylor

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  Tags in Capitalism, War, State

• Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

  C. L. R. James

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• In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

  C. L. R. James

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  Tags in Capitalism, Commercial

• For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

  Clara Zetkin

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  Tags in Capitalism, Emancipated, Lighten, Burdened, Tyranny, Chain

• Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

  Karl Heinrich Marx

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• Publicity is the life of this culture – in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive – and at the same time publicity is its dream.

  John Peter Berger

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  Tags in Capitalism, Culture, Publicity

• We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.

  Martin Luther King Jr

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  Tags in Injustice, Capitalism, Poverty

• Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

  Alain Badiou

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• Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.

  Orson Scott Card

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Capitalism, Garden

• People like Eugene Debs, Helen Keller, Emma Goldman, Jack London and Upton Sinclair were wonderful writers who joined the movement against war and injustice, against capitalism and corporate power. That was a very exciting period in American history.

  Howard Zinn

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  Tags in Injustice, Capitalism, War

• Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

  Al Capone

  Tags in Class, Capitalism

• This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

  Al Capone

  Topics in America, Opportunity

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• The view only changes for the lead dog.

  Norman O. Brown

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• Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

  George Bernard Shaw

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• But we don’t have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy – which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

  Peter Ludwig Berger

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• Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

  Karl Heinrich Marx

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• There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

  Bill Gates

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