Capitalism Quotes

The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self - earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

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

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.

May the devil take these peoples movements, especially when they are 'peaceful'.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it.

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.