The cheap but simple human emotion of envy is the driving force of all socialism, of all anti-capitalist philosophy. It is the mark of the intellectual.
The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.
There is always risk involved. You can't be a capitalist only when there are investment profits but then a socialist when you experience losses.
Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.
The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations
Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures.
It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.
Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.
You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms.
In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.
Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.
I think one of the key differentiators I bring to the table as a venture capitalist is a solid understanding of the public markets and how they operate.
Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.
I have always regrets about selling anything of Reed Hastings because he's really a good manager and a great capitalist.
Nothing's worse than a business person who sells out to the left, if you're a capitalist, stand up and be counted.
I'm a venture capitalist. I like to say my job is to help and support entrepreneurs. I can play a leadership role, but my organization can't be the leader.
Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.
Whole Foods is a wonderland molded to accommodate the psyche of the socially-responsible, guilt-ridden liberal - the crunchy Kucinich capitalist.
We live in a capitalist society and if we're talking about the people at the bottom of the food chain, it's women of colour.
For it is an essential difference between capitalist and socialist production that under capitalism men provide for themselves, while under Socialism they are provided for.
I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.
YouTube is the place where people go to consume advertisements willingly. It's some capitalist dystopian nightmare.
The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.
The Dutch have a can-do mentality, anything is possible. As long as you pay for it. It is very capitalist. Quite American in a way.
"Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.
I have sworn before a picture of the old and mourned comrade Stalin that I won’t rest until I see these capitalist octopuses annihilated.
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.
I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.
In a hyper-capitalist environment dominated by media giants, the means available to independent journalism have narrowed considerably.
I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.
The trade-unionist has the same limitation imposed upon him as the capitalist. He cannot advance his interests at the expense of society.
I’m a capitalist, not a corporatist. I’m not someone who believes we should be bailing out corporations whether their auto industries, or banks.
We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.
Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.
Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.
I'm actually a lot happier because I work as a teacher; more than just a capitalist making money for myself.
This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.
On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.
For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an act of resistance.
I had an amazing experience in Cuba. People there are fantastic. But I do have to say it's very nice to be back home in front of all of you capitalist pigs.
I'm a capitalist. I believe in the proper working of the free market. That's why I found the scandals of 2008, the banks, Libor, absolutely abhorrent.
The ruling ideology prefers to talk about individual ethics rather than the capitalist system.
Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.
Goldman Sachs isn't the firm it once was when I worked for it, but it's still one of the building blocks of our capitalist society.
One consequence of Russia's klepto-capitalist model is the growing appeal of government jobs, with their lucrative opportunities for payoffs.
I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort, could maybe break out of it.
The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.
In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily - and perhaps most tellingly - described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
When I'm a gender capitalist in the fashion world, I basically can go to any casting that I want to as long as somebody likes my face.
The capitalist priority is efficiency of capital and profitability, which is generally inconsistent with protecting the vulnerabilities of people and nature.
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
You are not going to destroy this imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it.
I've been an entrepreneur and venture capitalist in the cryptocurrency industry for a long time, working with numerous projects.
Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' - to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.
The U.S. incarceration binge is not tied to crime. It's a strategy to control the surplus population in a capitalist system that is breaking down.
Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' -- to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.
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