Anti Capitalist Quotes

“Yes, I am a Communist. And I will not take the fifth amendment against self-incrimination, because my political beliefs do not incriminate me, they incriminate the Nixons, Agnews, and Reagans.”
― Angela Y. Davis, If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance

“Normally, the easiest way to [use money to get more money, i.e. capitalism] is by establishing some kind of formal or de facto monopoly. For this reason, capitalists, whether merchant princes, financiers, or industrialists, invariably try to ally themselves with political authorities to limit the freedom of the market, so as to make it easier for them to do so. From this perspective, China was for most of its history the ultimate anti-capitalist market state. Unlike later European princes, Chinese rulers systematically refused to team up with would-be Chinese capitalists (who always existed). Instead, like their officials, they saw them as destructive parasites--though, unlike the usurers, ones whose fundamental selfish and antisocial motivations could still be put to use in certain ways. In Confucian terms, merchants were like soldiers. Those drawn to a career in the military were assumed to be driven largely by a love of violence. As individuals, they were not good people, but they were also necessary to defend the frontiers. Similarly, merchants were driven by greed and basically immoral; yet if kept under careful administrative supervision, they could be made to serve the public good. Whatever one might think of the principles, the results are hard to deny. For most of its history, China maintained the highest standard of living in the world--even England only really overtook it in perhaps the 1820s, well past the time of the Industrial Revolution.”
― David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

“too lazy for grind culture”
― Malebo Sephodi

“The dignity and beauty of the room he and Efor were in was as real as the squalor to which Efor was native. To him a thinking man's job was not to deny one reality at the expense of the other, but to include and to connect.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“I will not allow capitalism to diminish my experiences on earth”
― malebo sephodi

“[Nazis] would be the rocks against which the growing wave of revolution might be shattered.

Soon money began to flow to Hitler and the Nazis from those threatened interests. The Junkers and the industrialists believed they could control this strange leader who, they hoped, would help them keep their power over the masses. They were not disturbed by Hitler's anti-capitalist program. They believed it was only a trick to get the attention of the people.

Little did they know the true nature of the man they had decided to support. They had grabbed a dragon by the tail.”
― Louis L. Snyder, Hitler and Nazism

“You are rich, you own. We are poor, we lack. You have, we do not have. Everything is beautiful, here. Only not the faces. On Anarres nothing is beautiful, nothing but the faces. The other faces, the men and women. We have nothing but that, nothing but each other. Here you see the jewels, there you see the eyes.”
― Ursula K Le Guin