#capital

I wonder of what you must daily endure in America, having no government to protect you, no one to tell you what to do. Is it true you're given no ration card, that you must find food for yourself? Is it true that you labor for no higher purpose than paper money? What is California, this place you come from? I have never seen a picture. What plays over the American loudspeakers, when is your curfew, what is taught at your child-rearing collectives? Where does a woman go with her children on Sunday afternoons, and if a woman loses her husband, how does she know the government will assign her a good replacement? With whom would she curry favor to ensure her children got the best Youth Troop leader? ↗

— Adam Johnson

#socialism #food

One thing you'll learn when you're in the business of selling utter shite to the Great British Public is that there's really no bottom to where they'll go. Shit food, shit TV, shit bands, shit films, shit houses. There is absolutely no fucking bottom with this stuff. The shittier you can make it - a bad photocopy of a bad photocopy of what was a shit idea in the first place - the more they'll eat it up with a big fucking spoon, from dawn till dusk, from now until the end of time. It's too good. ↗

— John J. Niven

#capitalism #humour #public #selling #society

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy. ↗

— David Korten

#capitalism #democracy #enemy #market #presented

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way. ↗

— David Korten

#among #buying #capital #capitalism #choices

My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy. ↗

— David Korten

#claim #economy #market #market economy

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system. ↗

— David Korten

#brainwashing #capitalist #defense #economics #excesses

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#assertions #based #capital #capital punishment #form

Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#belonged #benefit #capital #declaring #different

A wise governor told me a long time ago, political capital you don't get more of by keeping it. You get it by using it. ↗

— Scott Walker

#capital #get #governor #keeping #long

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention. ↗

— Scott Walker

#because #been #before #call #ceos