Monopoly Capital Quotes

“Such planning and such action, however, will never be undertaken by a government run by and for the rich, as every capitalist government is and must be. To demand these things from a capitalist government is to demand that it cease to be capitalist.”
― SWEEZY Paul M. BARAN Paul A., Le capitalisme monopoliste

“At the root of capitalism poverty one always finds unemployment and underemployment what Mark called the industrial reserve army which directly deprive their victims of income and undermine the security and bargaining power of those with whom the unemployed compete for scarce jobs.”
― SWEEZY Paul M. BARAN Paul A., Le capitalisme monopoliste

“Capitalism everywhere generates wealth at one pole and poverty at another.”
― SWEEZY Paul M. BARAN Paul A., Le capitalisme monopoliste

“A model is, and must be, unrealistic in the sense in which the world is most commonly used. Nevertheless, and in a sense paradoxically if it is a good model it provides the key to understanding reality.”
― SWEEZY Paul M. BARAN Paul A., Le capitalisme monopoliste

“Here is Senator Russell in a colloquy on the Senate floor with Senator Proxmire: There is something about preparing for destruction that causes men to be more careless in spending money than they would be if they were building for constructive purposes. Why that is so I do not know; but I have observed, over a period of almost thirty years in the Senate, that there is something about buying arms with which to kill, to destroy, to wipe out cities, and to obliterate great transportation systems which causes men not to reckon the dollar cost as closely as they do when they think about proper housing and the care of the health of human beings.”
― Paul A. Baran, Monopoly Capital