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Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

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I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't. ↗

— Harold Ford

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Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

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These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand astride the world stage and Washington worries about decline, it seems to be, 'Who lost America?' ↗

— Eric Liu

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Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. ↗

— Karl Marx

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I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall over. Or it's kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I'll just die. ↗

— Andrew Mason

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