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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Derives
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
- Economic Theory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
- Fascism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
- Plus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
- Myth
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a leftist myth that European conquerors and settlers encountered only peaceful, virtuous tribes and subdued them murderously in the name of Christianity and Capitalism.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature was developed to resist the onslaughts of capitalism, but it's really not a very good defense - rather like resisting a steamroller with a Christmas tree ornament.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big companies are reliant on institutional investors on a punishing schedule which leads to ruthless behaviour. This form of capitalism with this structure and incentives will never deliver sustainability.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism and market forces are very powerful in producing wealth and innovation. But we need to ensure that these forces act in the common interest.
- Nov 07, 2020
We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.
- Compatible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Market forces and capitalism by themselves aren't sufficient to ensure the common good and to limit the concentration of wealth at levels that are compatible with democratic ideals.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China.
- Logic
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've heard some things from Pope Francis that are not fully supportive of free enterprise capitalism. That should be a problem from an American perspective.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the end of the 1970s, free-market capitalism has been in, and socialism has been out.
- Behaviors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally.
- Judging
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.
- Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is going to be globalization, but we need to do it under terms - under rules that work as rules work for our domestic economy on the dynamic of capitalism. You need to do trade in the same way.
- Firm Believer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone really wants.
- Labor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Soviet Union used the exploitation of workers under capitalism as an agitational issue to subvert Western democracies even as it practiced slave labor at home.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some argue shareholder capitalism has proven more efficient. It has moved economic resources to where they're most productive, and thereby enabled the economy to grow faster.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
- Morality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism actually encourages morality because capitalism can't function well if people can't trust each other and people aren't honest, if a deal isn't a deal.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no freedom without groceries. There are no groceries without freedom. What people call 'capitalism' and 'socialism' are actually one and inseparable. It's a virtuous circle.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we celebrate International Women's Day, it's not enough to applaud the contributions of women worldwide. We should also recognize and celebrate the opportunities and financial independence women enjoy because of entrepreneurial capitalism.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to see a capitalism that manages resources in a new, much more long-term manner.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
What got us out of the depression was capitalism, and we would have gotten out a lot quicker had the government not intervened.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.
- Favored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I call crony capitalism, where you take money from successful small businesses, spend it in Washington on favored industries, on favored individuals, picking winners and losers in the economy, that's not pro-growth economics. That's not entrepreneurial economics. That's not helping small businesses. That's cronyism, that's corporate welfare.
- Nov 07, 2020
Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite massive evidence to the contrary, libertarians hold tight to their romantic concept of capitalism, which, freed from government interference, serves the consumer with the best products at the lowest prices.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump is literally the epitome of evil, all the evils of this country - be it racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia.
- Encourages
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
- Autocratic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.
- Ethic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
- Financial
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.
- Enjoyment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
- Join
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- Nov 07, 2020
Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
- Invention
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- Nov 07, 2020
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fighting for free enterprise means standing up for free markets. The freedom to succeed includes the freedom to fail. We must defend entrepreneurial capitalism against the onslaught of the American Left.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quite a few plays I have written have an implicit critique of capitalism in that, if you follow it through to its end, what happens to the people who are left behind?
- Defend
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- Nov 07, 2020
I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.
- Economic System
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.
- Fearing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I talk about economic freedom. I talk about capitalism without fearing the word.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teenagers are in some ways the best readers because their imaginations haven't been narrowed down by boring things like jobs and the realities of money and capitalism.
- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody's doing it. In capitalism, you try to get the highest price you can for a product.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a big battle going on in the country in regards to capitalism and socialism, and it's a debate that deserves attention.
- Embrace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.
- Peasants
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
My perspective of capitalism growing up in Berkeley, Calif. in a low-income project, growing up poor, is that capitalism wanted to destroy me, they wanted me to become a worker.
- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism is in crisis.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm signing on to be an athlete, and it's almost like Karl Marx's theory on capitalism. I am both the worker and the product. I'm choosing to be a part of this system, thus I'm choosing to be part of the conditions that are set in this system.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly, for capitalism to work properly we must expect some upward normalisation of interest rates at some future point, to provide greater incentive for savers to save and investors to invest.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
- Logic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020