#capita

Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?' ↗

— Eric Liu

#ago #america #astride #capitalist #china

The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#baghdad #been #bombings #capital #car

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible? ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#impossible #socialism #unsustainable #what if

Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#build #capital #capital investment #cost #each

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. ↗

— Karl Marx

#dead #labor #lives #living #more

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. ↗

— Karl Marx

#combining #develops #into #labourer #only

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. ↗

— Karl Marx

#acquired #add #being #brings #capital

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. ↗

— Karl Marx

#compulsion #health #laborer #length #life

I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall over. Or it's kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I'll just die. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#bike #businessperson #capitalist #die #fall

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. ↗

— Terry McAuliffe

#china #companies #cuba #down #goes