Captialism Quotes

“Freedom begins where work ends- the realm of freedom is after hours, on the weekend, on vacation, and not at work.”
― Peter Frase

“Any individual exhibiting a personal instability comparable to the economic and social instability of capitalism would long ago have been required to seek professional help and to make basic changes.”
― Richard D. Wolff, Understanding Marxism

“Making an economy more productive (sensibly interpreted) in a sustainable fashion is not best served by obsessively activating people and locking them up in jobs that they hate doing and from which they learn nothing.”
― Philippe van Parijs, Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy

“Fundamental to British politics is not the Scottish or Northern Ireland question, but the English question: can the English remake themselves and thus contribute to the making of a new Britain? [Christopher] Harvie's new-found scepticism answers: 'It will be very difficult given the nature of capitalism is so directed by the City of London. British particularism, the constitutional anomalies that make up the UK such as the bolt-holes for capital such as the Channel Islands are a product of a casino, carnivore capitalism.”
― Gerry Hassan, Cencrastus No. 50: Winter 1994

“The system is a contradiction: the very logic imposed on the capitalist enterprise undermines the overall success of the capitalist. For Marxists, no law, rule, regulation, or behavior pattern provides an escape from this contradiction; none ever has.”
― Richard D. Wolff, Understanding Marxism

“When we consider that those who are unemployed are disproportionally people from the margins, we realize that our economic system is geared to prevent certain segments of our population from keeping God's commandment, "Six days you shall labor." Reading the Bible from the margins, because it is a contextual reading, subverts traditional readings and seriously critiques the dominant culture.”
― Miguel A De La Torre

“In periods of economic transformation inequality of opportunity is an unintended consequence of an unrestrained focus on wealth creation vs. value creation. Governments have repeatedly failed at proactively establishing the required agility to govern through inflection points. - Tom Golway”
― Tom Golway

“That Man is presented as a blind geologic force, such as volcanic eruptions or variations in solar radiation, is an expression of the naturalized or fetishized form of social relations that is prevalent in capitalism.”
― Daniel Cunha