The far right seeks to retain the material progress of American capitalism while removing some of its crucial causes and consequences — as though a bridge could be made to change part of its function by blowing up part of its supports and part of its exit.
The first rule of venture capitalism should be Shoot the Inventor.
The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a fellow who, by definition, can ill afford to believe in anything other than the doctrine of the bottom line. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state from whose grimy fingers the Reagan Administration hopes to snatch the ark of democracy.
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty — of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.
The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.
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