Economic Critique Quotes

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.

[We must] teach the advocates for an open trade the folly as well as degradation of their policy.

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

The real case against socialism is not its economic inefficiency, though on all sides there is evidence of that. Much more fundamental is its basic immorality.

That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

Economics is a form of brain damage.

Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.

Yes to market economy, no to market society.

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

The economical policies that are instigated really makes you think that the American government is a bunch of evil bastards. So just because you're black, you're still representing that government, and when Obama came into office he enacted the same policies that we would critique other presidents for.

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts; the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.

Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself.

When I see the mostly young people of Occupy Wall Street - a mixture of the bored, the nihilistic, the seekers of excitement, the left-wing true believers, the confused idealists and those hoping to engage in violence - railing against the rich capitalists on Wall Street, I get worried. Because the hatred they express toward the rich is similar to that expressed against the rich by Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Of course, these people are not comparable to those killers. But class hatred must lead to bad things. That is why President Obama is playing with fire with his attacks on the rich.

If you say "the economy," you show you're stupid. There's no such thing as the economy. There is not a unity between the forces of production and the relations of production.

The way to hell is capitalism, neo liberalism and globalization.

For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

We justify the greater and greater accumulation of capital because we believe that therefrom flows the support of all science, art, learning, and the charities which minister to the humanities of life, all carrying their beneficent effects to the people as a whole. Unless this is measurably true our system of civilization ought to stand condemned.

If you get rich in the name of the poor, fine and dandy. The problem is when you earn it. If you earn the money in the private sector by starting a business and hiring a lot of people, that's when you become the enemy.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

While admiring the pleasing evidence of wealth, we become complicit in - or, at the very least, recognize the extent to which we, too, are beneficiaries of - an economic system we routinely deplore.

One would be forgiven for concluding that the assumed benefits of financial innovation are not all they were cracked up to be.

The Romanticists predominantly, were enemies of capitalism, which they regarded as a prosaic, materialistic, “petty bourgeois” system — never realizing that it was the only system that could make freedom, individuality and the pursuit of values possible in practice.