The Ownership Wars Quotes

“Capitalism needs an enemy. If a real one doesn’t exist, it simply creates one … “Marxism.” Since there is no political and economic Marxism in America, the American right have invented cultural Marxism to perform the role of ultimate “other”, the thing to be hated, feared and resisted. What they call cultural Marxism is in fact what sane people call liberal cultural capitalism, i.e. the culture associated with liberal capitalists rather than conservative capitalists. Of course, in the demented minds of the far right, liberalism is Marxism, which is why Barack Obama was routinely branded a Marxist by the far right, despite never espousing a Marxist sentiment in his entire life. Liberal views, multiculturalism, and political correctness are not Marxist. They are liberal. Why would anyone call them Marxist except to demonize them? No honest person would ever refer to them as anything other than liberal, but since when have the American far right ever been honest? Their game is always the same: to generate maximum hatred of anything that is not conservative, libertarian, Confederate, racist, white Supremacist, and Nazi. Marxism is quintessentially about class struggle, about the workers versus the owners, and the aim of producing a classless society where the people are fully in charge of their own lives, and are never the slaves of the masters. Liberalism, by contrast, does not focus on class struggle but on values, identities and “rights”, especially of minorities. Right wingers have confused liberal capitalism with Marxism. Of course, they have done this deliberately to demonize liberal capitalism in order to convert all capitalists to conservative capitalism. They only want to see conservative (right wing) capitalism, or libertarian (far right) capitalism. Everything else is to be routinely denounced as “Marxist.” It’s just the good old McCarthyite tactic – tried and tested over the decades – that right wingers love so much.”
― Joe Dixon, The Ownership Wars: Who Owns You?

“America is already an implicit plutocracy. Why not make it explicit? Most Americans hate the government and the State. They have much more trust in the marketplace and capitalist billionaires. The logic of their position is that they should abandon democracy and surrender total power to the wealthy oligarchs, to the Ownership Class, to the 1%, to the likes of Donald Trump, who now sits in the White House in any case. Dinner is served.”
― Joe Dixon, The Ownership Wars: Who Owns You?

“That the very fact that it’s impossible for a working man or woman on $50,000 to get into the White House is the clearest proof that America is a plutocracy run by and for the rich. The American President is a billionaire plutocrat. What more needs to be said? No rational person would ever attempt to bandy words with us. The facts are irrefutable. If you support Donald Trump, you are a supporter of the rich elite, and you are acting against your own interests, just as the white Confederates were supporters of the super rich plantation owners, and acting against their own interests.”
― Joe Dixon, The Ownership Wars: Who Owns You?

“They own you. They own you lock, stock and barrel. You might as well be their slaves. You are their slaves. Isn’t it time to free yourselves? What are you going to do? Anything?”
― Joe Dixon, The Ownership Wars: Who Owns You?

“Raise your game. Raise the stakes. Raise the heavens themselves.”
― Joe Dixon, The Ownership Wars: Who Owns You?

“They own you. Why do you let them? They own you they because they own your dreams, and what you dream of is being one of them. Dream differently. Own your own dreams. Own yourself.”
― Joe Dixon, The Ownership Wars: Who Owns You?

“A tiny dream is no better than a nightmare.”
― Joe Dixon, The Ownership Wars: Who Owns You?

“Dream differently. Dream better. Dream higher. Don’t dream of money. Dream of human greatness and glory.”
― Joe Dixon, The Ownership Wars: Who Owns You?

“What contribution are you making? You must take risks to break through, or you will always remain a loser. Put yourself out there. Stand up and be counted.”
― Joe Dixon, The Ownership Wars: Who Owns You?

“Capitalism sells you “happiness”. It wants to convert you into “happiness machines”. It also sells you anxiety. If you don’t buy what they are selling, you will ipso facto be unhappy, they claim. Capitalism is all about the Engineering of Consent. You are seduced into submitting to capitalist hegemony, to accepting cultural capitalism. You have an entirely false consciousness manufactured for you by capitalism, to serve capitalist interests, which are always those of the elite 1% that run the capitalist world. Wake up!”
― Joe Dixon, The Ownership Wars: Who Owns You?