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Accuracy in Media

Category: Capitalism

We must build on the wealth that open markets have created

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

- Barack Hussein Obama , July, 24 2008.


Down with Capitalism

“Free enterprise really means rich people getting richer: they have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process…Capitalism is destroying the earth.”

- Helen Caldicott


Free markets are bad.

“The unfettered free market has been the most radically disruptive force in American life in the last generation.”

- Hillary Clinton


Fight capitalism.

“[T]he world needs Cuba to go on fighting and demonstrating a viable alternative to the globalization of the capitalist system.”

- Dean Saitta


I hope to see the end of capitalism.

“I am hopeful about the possibilities but not optimistic that in my lifetime I will see the demise of capitalism, corporations and wage slavery.”

- Robert Jensen


Advocating Marxism.

“I think Marxist theory and political practice are more relevant now than ever, given the global dominance of the capitalist mode of production and American imperialism.”

- James Holstun


Capitalism is the problem; socialism is the solution.

“[T]he problem is capitalism. [T]he only solution, as difficult as this may be to contemplate at the present time [March 2005], is socialism.”

- John Bellamy Foster , March 2005.


There are too many rich people.

“Actually, the problem in the world is that there is much too many rich people.”

- Paul Ehrlich , 1990.


Blacks won’t be liberated until capitalism is overthrown.

“[T]he only path of liberation for black people is that which leads toward complete and radical overthrow of the capitalist class.”

- Angela Davis , 1968.


Cut consumption and end capitalism.

“We have ended the dreaded Communism, we muse now end the dreaded capitalism. . . . We have to use less. Cutting our consumption by 75% is a very reasonable and relatively easily obtainable goal.”

- Andy Kerr , 1994.