Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

The United States has never done away with slavery; we just stopped calling it such. These days, we call it free-market capitalism.

To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses.

Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that.

The most convincing and enduring foe of the global financial economy ultimately is the global financial economy itself. - Ulrich Beck

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined.

Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important.

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

Freedom, inefficiency, and prosperity are not in it frequently found together, and it is seldom easy to distinguish between the first two.

If free enterprise becomes a proselytizing holy cause, it will be a sign that its workability and advantages have ceased to be self-evident.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.

The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them.