#capitalist

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

#ago #america #astride #capitalist #china

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#exploited #less #managers #state #than

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#capitalists #i #marxists #promote #revolution

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#capitalist #commercial #directed #economy #free

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#capitalist society #forces #left #make #poor

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#behavior #capitalist #career #choice #dress

Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

#due #every #girlfriend #his #mode

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. ↗

— George Saunders

#been #capitalist #capitalist society #course #done

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#being #capitalism #capitalist #caused #course

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. ↗

— Karl Marx

#employed #labor #machines #may #quell