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More Regulation- Less Capitalism

Howard Dean — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:17:58 +0000

“I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years; I think we need some regulation now.”

We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets

Barack Obama — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:29:47 +0000

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk- rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society’s stifling conventions. We weren’t indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated. But this strategy alone couldn’t provide the distance I wanted, from Joyce or my past. After all, there were thousands of so- called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerant. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.”

We must build on the wealth that open markets have created

Barack Obama — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:39:34 +0000

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.

Down with Capitalism

Helen Caldicott — Mon, 07 May 2007 17:39:25 +0000

“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.”

Free markets are bad.

Hillary Clinton — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:11:15 +0000

â€œThe unfettered free market has been the most radically disruptive force in American life in the last generation.â€

Fight capitalism.

Dean Saitta — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:27:54 +0000

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

I hope to see the end of capitalism.

Robert Jensen — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:15:24 +0000

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

Advocating Marxism.

James Holstun — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:11:20 +0000

“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.”

Capitalism is the problem; socialism is the solution.

John Bellamy Foster — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:01:43 +0000

“[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.”

There are too many rich people.

Paul Ehrlich — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:51:48 +0000

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