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In the old days, farmers would keep a little of their home-made opium for their families, to be used...

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Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through ...

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Mr. Disney, we are returning your Duck. Feathers plucked and well-roasted. Look inside, you can see ...

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Nor is he liberal who gives with pain; for he would prefer the wealth to the noble act, and this is ...

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The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man.

In India we're fighting to retain a wilderness that we have. Whereas in the west, it's gone. Every p...

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Somewhere along the way, Capitalism reduced the idea of justice to mean just "human rights," and the...

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Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?

Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shop...

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At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to t...

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How can you measure progress if you don't know what it costs and who has paid for it? How can the "m...

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Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a paymen...

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America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive g...

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Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men f...

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Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group—whether to a race, class or state do...

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When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such d...

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There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those...

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People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting b...

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The only thing that counts in life is solid, material assets. It's no time for theories when everyth...

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Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

There might be some sort of justification for the savage societies in which a man had to expect that...

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In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete sep...

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Ayn RandThe Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought

In fact the "mask" theme has come up several times in my background reading. Richard Sennett, for ex...

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Barbara EhrenreichBait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream

Just as layoffs were making a mockery of the team concept, employees were urged to find camaraderie ...

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Barbara EhrenreichBright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do...

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Testimony in new age writing affirms the way in which embracing a love ethic transforms life for the...

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The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safet...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradic...

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Bell hooksFeminist Theory: From Margin to Center

I do not intend to defend capitalism or capitalists. They, like everything human, have their defects...

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Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporat...

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Global inequality means that while the wealthy have too few needs, the needy have too little wealth....

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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodi...

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This was 1990 the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the wor...

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Bill BrysonNeither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

Fascism is when corporations become the government.

We preach about capitalism and the beauty of unfettered market forces determining price--but not whe...

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Bill MaherWhen You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism

This dog is mine," said those poor children; "that is my place in the sun." Here is the beginning an...

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The only thing "free" about so-called free time is that it doesn't cost the boss anything. Free time...

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Bob BlackThe Abolition of Work & Other Essays

Work, then, institutionalizes homicide as a way of life. People think the Cambodians were crazy for ...

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Bob BlackThe Abolition of Work & Other Essays

I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a w...

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Expenditure rises to meet income.

Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanctio...

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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reje...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and the...

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Carlos FuentesMyself with Others: Selected Essays

We’ve each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men’s profit, and have been aske...

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You think of killing himon the spotbut discard that thought andleave,down into the urine-stinkingele...

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Charles BukowskiSifting Through the Madness for the Word

Pounds are the sons not of pounds but of pence.

Any capitalist . . . who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder ...

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Don’t you have any concept of individuality?" she asks, annoyed by its presumption at meddling with ...

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If we ran Nigeria like this cell," he said, "we would have no problems in this country. Things are s...

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The cult of self dominates our cultural landscape. This cult has within it the classic traits of psy...

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Chris HedgesEmpire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human li...

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Chris HedgesThe Death of the Liberal Class

[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous t...

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One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good th...

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In capitalist nation, all is decided by money.

This American system of ours', he shouted, 'call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what yo...

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Has it ever occurred to you that business as you think of it may have outlived its usefulness? Busin...

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Clifford D. SimakTime Is the Simplest Thing

Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism?

The Master said, “Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquir...

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The Master said, “If your conduct is determined solely by considerations of profit you will arouse g...

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The Master said, “A true gentleman is one who has set his heart upon the Way. A fellow who is ashame...

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The Master said, “The gentleman does not serve as a vessel.”(Analects 2.12)

The Master said, “The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit....

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There can be no return to prosperity while the government (of Ontario) believes that taking money fr...

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The black conservatives claim that the decline of values such as patience, deferred gratification, a...

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This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenien...

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In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neolib...

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Cornel WestThe Cornel West Reader

I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Ch...

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The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer c...

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Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system ...

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[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of huma...

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How did we get here? My own suspicion is that we are looking at the final effects of the militarizat...

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The theory of exodus proposes that the most effective way of opposing capitalism and the liberal sta...

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David GraeberFragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

...those thoroughly incorporated within the inexorable logic of the market and its demands find that...

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Beyond the speculative and often fraudulent froth that characterizes much of neoliberal financial ma...

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The main substantive achievement of neoliberalization, however, has been to redistribute, rather tha...

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One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you...

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This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of natu...

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Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties lea...

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But the more time has been released from production, the more imperative it has become to absorb tha...

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David HarveySeventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

Capitalists too, as the novelist Charles Dickens noted, liked to think of their workers as 'hands' o...

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David HarveySeventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called nat...

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David HarveyThe Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism

Since the 1970S, financial innova­tions such as the securitisation of mortgage debt and the spreadin...

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David HarveyThe Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism

We can't, it seems, live without [capitalism] even as we complain about it.

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David HarveyThe Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism

The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the l...

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It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.

Wake up America!The insurance companies took over health care!Wake up America! The pharmaceutical co...

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Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry ...

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...capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire t...

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Dinesh D'SouzaWhat's So Great About Christianity

You know what capitalism produces. According to Marx and Engels.""Its own grave-diggers," he said."B...

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Then they’re always trying to sell you something. Everything is based on forcing people to buy. If y...

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I visit my assistant mistress. "Well, Azalea," I say, sitting in the best chair, "what has happened ...

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Smoke, rain, abulia. What can the concerned citizen do to fight the rise of capitalism, in his own c...

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The first thing I did was make a mistake. I thought I had understood capitalism, but what I had done...

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The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer...

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Douglas AdamsThe Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are...

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I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The a...

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Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense and great expense may be an essential part of true eco...

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Capitalism has run its course, and we shall have to look for other ideals than the ones that capital...

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Edmund WilsonThe American Jitters: A Year of the Slump