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.
“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
“The unfettered free market has been the most radically disruptive force in American life in the last generation.”
- Hillary Clinton
“[T]he world needs Cuba to go on fighting and demonstrating a viable alternative to the globalization of the capitalist system.”
- Dean Saitta
“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
“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
“[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.
“Actually, the problem in the world is that there is much too many rich people.”
- Paul Ehrlich , 1990.
“[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.
“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.