Here are some interesting quotes regarding capitalism. Feel free to add your own.

[Electric Monk]

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
- John Maynard Keynes


Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
- Al Capone

This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.
- Al Capone



Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
- Bertrand Russell



For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
- Karl Liebknecht


Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
- Upton Sinclair


I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made, more often than not, on the blood of poor people, black people, Indian people. They were the ones who paid very dearly for those great fortunes.
- Peter Matthiessen


If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
- John Ralston Saul


It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
- Barney Frank


The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
- Mikhail Gorbachev


What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.
- Susan George


WikiLeaks is designed to make capitalism more free and ethical.
-Julian Assange

[banned from Kos]

1. Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what is for dinner

Its easy to demagogue!

[Electric Monk]

3. - Rush Limbaugh ?

I'm starting to see why you were banned from Kos...

[banned from Kos]

4. Oh bullshit! Go full bore anti-market and watch the Democratic Party

fall to 15% of the electorate.

You can't let the nutcases run the ward.

[Electric Monk]

11. So, where's your star? Do you support DU? Or are you just some freeloading commie with boring hair?

[eridani]

12. The bullshit is you confusing markets with capitalism

Markets and training existed long before capitalism. Capitalism is about ownership of the means of production, and only that.

[sighbird]

2. Disgusting attempt by rightwing scum

I don't know if any of you guys use facebook, but there has been a chain letter going around that calls for a "28th Amendment" to the Us Constitution. In this letter it goes on about "Healthcare Reform" and other nonsense, and how congress gets 100% benefits after one term but soldiers only get 50% after risking their lives. But the picture they associate with the letter is of a disfigured Marine who they dont even mention his name, or his sacrifice. I want to get this message out there about how these right wing rodents are using this marine's face as a prop to push their vile.

I;m a longtime reader of DU but i never have signed up before, it says I cant make a thread until I post on a few open threads.

[socialist_n_TN]

5. I've got one of my own.......

Regulating capitalism is like riding a tiger. It's VERY hard to do and you're always in danger of being eaten.

[Scruffy1]

13. Good one.

[socialist_n_TN]

18. Yep. Every now and then I'll nail it..........

:)

[truedelphi]

23. Most excellent. n/t

[Arctic Dave]

6. Here is another.

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

Karl Marx (1818-1883) German philosopher and political economist.

[jwirr]

7. I love the Al Capone quotes. Today all he would have to do is change

his career to a banker. He would fit right in.

[Electric Monk]

9. or run for Mayor

[Terry in Austin]

8. "Capitalism doesn't work. Neither do capitalists"

Freshly minted, fits on a bumper sticker!

B-)

[socialist_n_TN]

19. And that's a good one too.........

:)

[coalition_unwilling]

10. "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."

Attributed to V.I. Lenin to his Politburo colleague Veroniev, ca. 1922.

[Xicano]

14. "You know what capitalism is? Getting fucked!" -- Tony Montana

[spinbaby]

15. My favorite

"It’s a regrettable truth that immigrant groups have always brought their criminal organizations with them from the old country. The Italians brought the Mafia; the Chinese brought the tongs; and the English brought industrial capitalism.”

Mr. Magundi

[icymist]

17. And American capitalists did nothing to stop any of these.

Until, of course, they became out of favour.

[pnorman]

16. That Gorby quote is spot on!

n/t

[eallen]

20. "The market is the best mechanism ever invented..."

Since this is the democratic underground, rather than the socialist underground, perhaps some quotes from Barack Obama are appropriate. The second is from the Audacity of Hope:

"The market is the best mechanism ever invented for efficiently allocating resources to maximize production. And I also think that there is a connection between the freedom of the marketplace and freedom more generally."

"Our Constitution places the ownership of private property at the very heart of our system of liberty. The result of this business culture has been a prosperity that's unmatched in human history. Our greatest asset has been our system of social organization, a system that for generations has encouraged constant innovation, individual initiative and the efficient allocation of resources."

:hippie:

[Starry Messenger]

21. "Crimes of Capitalism"

"Our country is beautiful, our people are capable. But its vast resources and its people are exploited by a handful of greedy monopolists. Their crimes are innumerable. They allow veterans to remain homeless, children to starve around the world, miners to die in the depths of the earth. The capitalist system causes war, unemployment, depressions, prostitution. It takes advantage of colonial people, depriving them of independence. It helped build up the Nazis and fascists through international trusts (cartels). It is now building up Germany and Japan as buffers against the Socialist country— the Soviet Union. It deprives youth of education and self-development. It has kept women in an inferior position, has not safeguarded maternity or childhood, nor taken drudgery out of the home (except for its own women). It pits people against each other on the basis of sex, color, religion, national origin. It has created the Jim Crow system against the Negro people, that disgraces us everywhere. It retards the full use of the resources of our country, of inventions, and the benefits of science for health, and progress. It cramps the intelligence and cheapens the cultural life of our country."

- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Women’s Place In The Fight For a Better World, 1947



“America needs socialism. It has outgrown capitalism. All the patching and stretching will not make capitalism fit the America of today and tomorrow”


-Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, “Horizons of the Future for A Socialist America”, 1959

[Initech]

22. "Do you know what capitalism is? Getting fucked!" - Tony Montana

[truedelphi]

24. These quotes are brilliant. Thank you! n/t