History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom
Milton Friedman
For it is no railways, roads, and power stations that give rise to industrial capitalism: it is the emergence of industrial capitalism that leads to the building of railways, to the construction of roads, and to the establishment of power stations.
Paul Alexander Baran
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Conservatism is alien to the very nature of capitalism.
Whittaker Chambers
Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.
Michel Chossudovsky
It is in underdeveloped world that he central, overriding fact of our epoch becomes manifest to the naked eye: the capitalist system, once a mighty engine of economic development, has turned into a no less formidable hurdle to human advancement.
Paul Alexander Baran
They lived in abysmal misery, yet they had no prospect of a better tomorrow. They existed under capitalism, yet there was no accumulation of capital.
Paul Alexander Baran
In a capitalist country foreign trade, like any other trade, is carried on by individual firms, and individual firms cannot be guided in their activities by "global"considerations, by concern with the impact of their operations on the economy as a whole.
Paul Alexander Baran
Indeed, I find it illuminating to consider to what extent our "classical conditions" for economic growth are satisfied in the current, monopolistic phase of capitalism.
Paul Alexander Baran
The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.
James P. Cannon
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over the talent, the science, the technology, how to buy out the human capital, how to acquire the intellectual property rights?
Michel Chossudovsky