#capita

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Comradeship, dignity, amorosity, love, solidarity, fraternity, friendship, ethics: all these names stand in contrast to the commodified, monetised relations of capitalism, all describe relations developed in struggles against capitalism and which can be seen as anticipating or creating a society beyond capitalism.


John Holloway


#solidarity #friendship

Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment." Student: "Prone.


Kristin Hannah


#humor #love

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.


Napoleon Bonaparte


#gain #internationalism #money #patriotism #money

The guillotine is the masterpiece of the plastic arts Its click Creates perpetual motion ("The Head")


Blaise Cendrars


#decapitation #guillotine #perpetual-motion #art

You know, when I was in Paris, seeing Linter for the first time, I was standing at the top of some steps in the courtyard where Linter's place was, and I looked across it and there was a little notice on the wall saying it was forbidden to take photographs of the courtyard without the man's permission. [..] They want to own the light!


Iain Banks


#human-nature #observation #science-fiction #art

The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another. Avarice over-rates the difference between poverty and riches: ambition, that between a private and a public station: vain-glory, that between obscurity and extensive reputation. The person under the influence of any of those extravagant passions, is not only miserable in his actual situation, but is often disposed to disturb the peace of society, in order to arrive at that which he so foolishly admires. The slightest observation, however, might satisfy him, that, in all the ordinary situations of human life, a well-disposed mind may be equally calm, equally cheerful, and equally contented. Some of those situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others: but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardour which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice; or to corrupt the future tranquillity of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse from the horror of our own injustice.


Adam Smith


#ethics #happiness #equality

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.


Adam Johnson


#capitalism #communism #economics #north-korea #obedience

In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.


Henry David Thoreau


#labor #work #life

Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both.


Martin Luther King Jr.


#economic-justice #racism #social-justice #socialism #truth

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” - Lord Henry Wotton.


Oscar Wilde


#capitalism #material #money #possessions #priorities