#capital

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

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#capitalists #i #marxists #promote #revolution

In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#completely #condition #distribution #industrial #industrial organization

I have said it already, I am convinced that the way to build a new and better world is not capitalism. Capitalism leads us straight to hell. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#am #better #better world #build #capitalism

The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the right has sunken us. Socialism builds and capitalism destroys. ↗

— Hugo Chavez

#builds #capitalism #destroys #get #left