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Jai Ganesh

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Capitalist Quotes - I

Capitalist Quotes - I

1. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. - Vladimir Lenin

2. Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. - Karl Marx

3. These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel. - Abraham Lincoln

4. I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution. - Fidel Castro

5. The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. - Jawaharlal Nehru

6. The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. - Vladimir Lenin

7. Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. - Karl Marx

8. The difference between the Chinese workers and foreign workers lies in the fact that the latter are oppressed only by their own capitalists and not by those of other countries. - Sun Yat-sen

9. Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. - Vladimir Lenin

10. Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups. - Elon Musk

11. While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. - Karl Marx

12. But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees. - Erno Rubik.

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