Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.

It is not wonderful. It is an ugly world. Not like this one. Anarres is all dusty and dry hills. All meager, all dry. An — Ursula K. Le Guin

$The double consequence of artifice--to project sentience out onto the made world and in turn to make sentience itself into a complex living artifact--is thus fractured, neatly fractured, into two sepa — Elaine Scarry The Body in Pain$

Money is to an economy as nutrition is to the human body. When central bankers ignore that relationship by providing mor — Said Elias Dawlabani, MEMEnomics: The Next-Generation Economic System

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one — Native American Saying

Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons? — Arundhati Roy, Capitalism: A Ghost Story

The diseconomies of capitalism are treated as the public's responsibility. Corporate America skims the cream and leaves — Michael Parenti, Against Empire

Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will no — Arundhati Roy, Capitalism: A Ghost Story

Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but f — James Clavell, Shōgun

The winner takes all mindset at the root of capitalism is a poison if left unchecked. That’s not to say capitalism is ba — James Morcan, The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle — James Morcan, The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinenc — Paul Lafargue, The Right to Be Lazy

The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid. — Julie Rivkin, Literary Theory: An Anthology

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