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After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. — Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of — Karl Marx, The German Ideology
The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the cha — Stefan Molyneux
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; politica — Ayn Rand
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men wh — Ayn Rand
There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They — Stefan Molyneux
If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attra — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade... — Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by — Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand n — Terry Eagleton, The Meaning of Life
Latter-day capitalism. Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdiv — Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
The justification of capitalism is not that the economy grows faster than it grows under any other system ... not that t — M. Northrup Buechner, Objective Economics: Ayn Rand's philosophy changes everything about economics
The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Ric — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
DEATH is big business.Thank god for capitalism. — Anthony T. Hincks
At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to take away water AWAY — Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living
A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people. — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our — Inga Muscio, Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
Even with all its positive attributes, capitalism in its imperialistic form is the most treacherous system mankind ever — Janvier Chouteu-Chando
I have dedicated my life to fight against the heinous rottenness of modern capitalism because it robs the laborer of thi — Charles E. Coughlin
Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power must always and everywhere be battled, because they never, ever quit — Carolina De Robertis, Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times