One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.
American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.
When we truly discover love, capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.
Chaplin is no businessman
Art is socialism but life is capitalism.
You can't have capitalism without racism.
In the whole history of capitalism, no one has been able to establish a coercive monopoly by means of competition in a free market. . . Every single coercive monopoly that exists or ever has existed. . . was created and made possible only by an act of government. . . which granted special privileges (not obtainable in a free market) to a man or a group of men, and forbade all others to enter that particular field.
Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.
Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.
As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves. '
Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.
Interventionism cannot be considered as an economic system destined to stay. It is a method for the transformation of capitalism into socialism by a series of successive steps.
There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to delegate the entire management of production and distribution to the government. Either capitalism or socialism: there exists no middle way.
Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign (away from the comforts of narrative and illusionism, was the claim); but equally it dreamed of turning the sign back to a bedrock of WorldNatureSensationSubjectivity which the to and fro of capitalism had all but destroyed.
It seems that neither the Keynesian nor the Marxian prognosis of the future of capitalism is being fulfilled and we are left without any particular theory as to what will happen next.
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This impulse exists and has existed among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars.
Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.
The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.