#capitalism

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#barrier #breeds #broad #capitalism #corrupt

It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#alternative #between #capitalism #difficult #exploitation

The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#assuming #capitalism #competition #defenders #does

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone. ↗

— Robert Heilbroner

#alone #capitalism #class #cure #failing

If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up as the daughter of her employer, if the Negro owns a Cadillac, if they all read the same newspaper, then this assimilation indicates not the disappearance of classes, but the extent to which the needs and satisfactions that serve the preservation of the Establishment are shared by the underlying population. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

#philosophy #political-science #social-science #science

[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism. ↗

— Angela Y. Davis

#prisons #racism #society #sociology #racism

If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie. ↗

— Michael Moore

#believes #called #capitalism #capitalist #christian

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself. ↗

— Michael Moore

#education #filmmaker #flint #going #happen

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America. ↗

— Evo Morales

#capitalism #hurt #latin #latin america #only

Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity. ↗

— Evo Morales

#friend #humanity #worst