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Comme l’a dit Marx, le capitalisme ne crée pas seulement un producteur pour le consommateur, il crée aussi un consommateur pour le producteur.

Edgar Morin • La Voie : Pour l'avenir de l'Humanité (Essais) (French Edition)

“Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. In the instant in which he acquires them, he may feel happier than he did before. But as soon as some of his wishes ar... See more

Ludwig von Mises Quotes (Author of Human Action)

Capitalism

Andreas Vlach • 17 cards

Marx’s thought was in many ways rooted in that of one Georg Wilhelm Friederich Hegel, the German late-Enlightenment philosopher with a teleological view of history, whom Schopenhauer hated and lost his students to. To Hegel, the chapters of humanity’s story are connected by violence and revolution. These charges are brought about by visionary revol

Derren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine

À cette question, les libéraux répondaient que c'était l'appât du gain, purement et simplement ; nous pensions que c'était une réponse insuffisante. Quant aux marxistes ils ne répondaient rien, ils ne s'y intéressaient même pas, et c'est ce qui fait d'ailleurs que le communisme a échoué : dès qu'on a supprimé l'aiguillon financier les gens ont cess

Michel Houellebecq • La carte et le territoire (French Edition)

Yet nearly 250 years after Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations, the publication most committed to defending his legacy was now uncertain whether one of the central premises of his thinking would endure for much longer. Such doubt resides at the very heart of what the Third Disruption means. If capital can become labour – if tools produced by humans c

Aaron Bastani • Fully Automated Luxury Communism

What is required is a rigorous account of why socially necessary labor time is the measure of value under capitalism and why such a measure of value is self-contradictory.

Martin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom

Just as Marx called into question the naturalness of work under capitalism – showing it not as a natural attribute of humanity but a historically specific and violent arrangement – women associated with the Wages for Housework movement sought to show that the unpaid work women did in the home was not out of a natural feminine benevolence, but explo

Amelia Horgan • Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism (Outspoken by Pluto)

Keynes was an open critic of Marx despite also claiming to have never read him. And yet here one sees remarkable parallels between the two. For Marx, communism was a condition of abundance, a society where labour and leisure dissolved into each other, and where our natures were developed in a manner consistent with play. This was a world where scar