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Intellectuals feel they are the most valuable people, the ones with the highest merit, and that society should reward people in accordance with their value and merit. But a capitalist society does not satisfy the principle of distribution 'to each according to his merit or value.'
Robert Nozick
People
Reward
Valuable
Value
Society
Distribution
Highest
Feel
Merit
Most
Principle
Does
His
Accordance
According
Intellectuals
Capitalist
Capitalist Society
Should
Each
Satisfy
Unsuccessful businessmen and workers do not have the same animus against the capitalist system as do the wordsmith intellectuals. Only the sense of unrecognized superiority, of entitlement betrayed, produces that animus.
Robert Nozick
Entitlement
Sense
System
Betrayed
Superiority
Only
Unsuccessful
Intellectuals
Same
Against
Workers
Capitalist
Produces
Businessmen
The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.
Robert Solow
Positive
Key
Wealth
Key Thing
About
Net
Economy
Return
Itself
Capitalist
Thing
Credit reproduces all the fundamental antagonisms of the capitalist world. It accentuates them. It precipitates their development and thus pushes the capitalist world forward to its own destruction.
Rosa Luxemburg
World
Destruction
Own
Pushes
Development
Thus
Antagonism
Them
Capitalist
Forward
Fundamental
Credit
People finally understood that the role of the social-democratic party rests on its conscious leadership of the mass struggle against the existing society, a struggle that must reckon with the vital, necessary conditions of capitalist society.
Rosa Luxemburg
Leadership
Struggle
People
Party
Society
Finally
Reckon
Must
Vital
Rests
Mass
Understood
Conditions
Existing
Role
Against
Capitalist
Capitalist Society
Conscious
Necessary
In the Imperialist Era, the foreign loan played an outstanding part as a means for young capitalist countries to acquire independence.
Rosa Luxemburg
Loan
Independence
Young
Imperialist
Part
Outstanding
Countries
Foreign
Era
Acquire
Capitalist
Means
Played
It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.
Rudolf Hilferding
Simple
Society
Must
Moreover
Price
Obvious
Conditions
Commodities
Differ
Formation
Social
Social Conditions
Capitalist
Capitalist Society
Production
Based
Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition.
Rudolf Hilferding
Competition
Value
Resulting
Point
Prices
Whence
Capitalist
Theoretical
Necessary
Starting
Phenomenon
Starting Point
Consequently
Peculiar
I'm a capitalist, I'm a CEO, I run a big business, I'm an employer.
Sophia Amoruso
Business
Big
Run
Employer
Big Business
CEO
Capitalist
I see myself as a bit of a capitalist really - I like enterprise and making money.
Steph McGovern
Myself
Money
Bit
Enterprise
See
Like
Making
Making Money
Really
Capitalist
Goldman Sachs isn't the firm it once was when I worked for it, but it's still one of the building blocks of our capitalist society.
Steve Bannon
Building
Society
Our
Once
Firm
Building Blocks
Still
Blocks
Goldman Sachs
Worked
Capitalist
Capitalist Society
Everyone in the tech business, from Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr on down, says that the ruination of the industry, if not the entire country, will come from the inability to hire more brainiacs from countries like China and India.
Steven Levy
Business
Will
Country
Down
Everyone
Says
India
John
Entire
More
Countries
Come
Like
Venture
Industry
Perkins
Hire
Inability
China
China And India
Capitalist
Tech
Because of poverty, we must adopt the capitalist means of production to develop our resources to get rich. However, if we ignore the issue of social justice at the beginning of China's industrialization, we will sow the seeds of class warfare in the future.
Sun Yat-sen
Future
Class
Justice
Will
Poverty
Beginning
Rich
Our
Resources
Must
Class Warfare
Seeds
Adopt
Develop
Industrialization
Because
Issue
However
Get
Sow
China
Warfare
Social
Capitalist
Means
Production
Social Justice
Ignore
I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
Tariq Ali
Political
Hoped
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Restoration
Concept
Am
Revolutions
Happen
After
Happened
Might
Capitalist
Europe
Fully
Aware
Actually
Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.
Timothy Noah
Wonderful
Country
Live
Markets
Glad
Wonderful Things
Which
Capitalist
Many
Why
Things
I'm not exactly the best capitalist ever.
Tom Douglas
Best
Exactly
Capitalist
Ever
Ask any venture capitalist, and they will tell you that they consider the experience and completeness of the founding team to be a more important factor in their investment decision than the technology that is being built.
Vivek Wadhwa
You
Technology
Experience
Decision
Will
Important
Consider
Completeness
Tell
More
Factor
Investment
Venture
Built
Than
Any
Being
Ask
Capitalist
Team
Founding
The fastest way to get kicked out of a venture capitalist's office is to say that you want to build a business that grows steadily, focuses on employees, and creates wealth over the long term. Entrepreneurs with such ambitions are considered pariahs.
Vivek Wadhwa
You
Business
Wealth
Long
Employees
Build
Ambition
Considered
Kicked
Way
Say
Out
Steadily
Entrepreneurs
Long-Term
Over
Term
Venture
Office
Get
Want
Capitalist
Creates
Grows
Fastest
The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.
Vivienne Westwood
Great
Situation
Rich
Other
Earth
Way
Worse
System
Out
About
Only
Taking
Supposed
Make
Debt
Labour
Getting
Going
Commodity
Happening
Poor
Poorer
Capitalist
Richer
Growth
I was born in the Bay Area because my dad was a semi-professional photographer and poet who was really into John Coltrane. He's had many lives. My dad's a capitalist to his bone, but he's also a human to his bone.
W. Kamau Bell
Poet
Bone
Bay
Bay Area
Photographer
John
John Coltrane
Born
Area
Had
Coltrane
He
Also
Because
His
Human
Really
Capitalist
Who
Many
Dad
Lives
Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
Umberto Eco
Creativity
Anarchic
Darwinian
Only
Capitalist
This unthinking assumption of moral virtue on the Left is frustrating. I saw someone on Facebook talking about capitalist scum, he was angry and thought it was OK because his anger was righteous.
Richard Coles
Angry
Anger
Facebook
Thought
Assumption
Virtue
Saw
OK
Righteous
Moral
About
Someone
He
Talking
Because
His
Left
Frustrating
Capitalist
Aspiration, opportunity, and a stake in society are things which combine education, decent healthcare and the fruits of a capitalist system where individuals contribute to society, while also pursuing their natural inclination to improve their lot in life.
Kwasi Kwarteng
Life
Education
Natural
Opportunity
Society
System
Pursuing
Individuals
Combine
Also
Healthcare
Lot
Contribute
Improve
Decent
Where
Fruits
Which
While
Natural Inclination
Stake
Capitalist
Aspiration
Inclination
Things
I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves.
Lee Harvey Oswald
I Am
Society
Am
Decadent
Where
Worker
Workers
Capitalist
Capitalist Society
Communist
Lived
Slaves
In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
Carroll O'Connor
Society
Given
Like
Michael
Rewards
Staggering
Capital
Persons
Create
Capitalist
Capitalist Society
Who
A true capitalist doesn't have a job, because other people and other people's money work for them.
Robert Kiyosaki
Work
People
Money
Job
Other
True
Because
Them
Capitalist
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