Anyone know of a good source for anti-capitalist quotations or short arguments? For example, by politicians, writers, intellectuals, about how it causes poverty, exploitation, etc. Not necessarily from Marx, Lenin, etc.
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.
It's also a good read if you want a good laugh.
My favorite online shop: www.cafepress.com/libertyphile
Just read any government school textbook in the Western world. Most of them are viro and confuse free market capitalism with mercantilism, fascism, crony capitalism and anyone opposed to the Soviet Union.
If you want more specific quotes, how about "The Cost of Capitalism: Understanding Market Mayhem and Stabilizing our Economic Future". by Robert Barbera. Most of Michael Moore's books and "documentaries" would also fit.
There is always John Kenneth Galbraith's drivel.
nameless:There is always John Kenneth Galbraith's drivel.
He came to my school and couldn't awnser my question. He sat their going, Hmm, umm, hmm, hmm, umm; I loved every moment of it. I regret walking away, but it was too akward.
you've aroused my curiosity as to what you asked him.
Where there is no property there is no justice; a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid
Fools! not to see that what they madly desire would be a calamity to them as no hands but their own could bring
He was talking about a necessary stimulus package of around 2 trillion dollars, this was before the stimulus package was passed, and I asked him about government spending historically failing. I gave the example of his father who proclaimed that "if NYC spent 300% more, all of their troubles would vanish;" of course, they increased spending by 500%, and the problems only got worse. Then I asked him about the inevitable exacerbation of relative and absolute price distortions, he responded by saying: "There's no inflation during recessions, we are facing extreme deflationary pressures." I then said, "suppose your right, and deflation is the case, why then should we not expect to end up like the Japanese, with two lost decades? The Nikkei peaked at 39,000 in 1980, and it's at 7,800 at the moment." He said that "America and Japan are very different." I then gave up; he was mumbling and stuttering the entire time. Especially when attempting to answer my Japanese question. He kept talking about how credit was a flow, and that it was clogged, and it's the government's job to "unclog" this flow, I think.
I didn't know anything about capital theory, and just got into ABCT. If only I could go back in time...
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