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C'est bien toi, dis-je doucement, qui m'as expliqué que le capitalisme était dans son principe un état de guerre permanente, une lutte perpétuelle qui ne peut jamais avoir de fin. — C'est vrai, convint-elle sans hésitation ;
Michel Houellebecq • Plateforme (French Edition)
universal basic income (the capitalist paradise) or universal basic services (the communist paradise).
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Cela ne signifiait pas que la fascination des intellectuels, notamment français, pour les idées marxistes avait totalement disparu. Elle se transforma légèrement. Certains refusèrent purement et simplement d’en tirer les leçons. Sartre qualifia Soljenitsyne d’« élément dangereux ». Plus subtil, Derrida remplaça l’idée d’argent par l’idée de pouvoir
... See moreJordan B. Peterson • 12 règles pour une vie (French Edition)
The capitalistic economy of the present day is an immense cosmos into which the individual is born, and which presents itself to him, at least as an individual, as an unalterable order of things in which he must live. It forces the individual, insofar as he is involved in the system of market relationships, to conform to capitalistic rules of actio
... See moreMax Weber • The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Karl Marx, la dette publique n’est pas présentée comme un fardeau qui pèse universellement sur les « générations futures », toutes classes sociales confondues. Observateur avisé d’un XIXe siècle révolutionnaire, Marx rappelle qu’en face de chacun des titres d’emprunt émis pour financer le déficit annuel (en contrepartie de ces passifs publics) il y
... See moreBenjamin Lemoine • La démocratie disciplinée par la dette (French Edition)
The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones. Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinctive feature: it has simplified the class
... See moreKarl Marx • The Communist Manifesto
Schumpeter agreed with Marx on two important points: that the ever-increasing efficiency of capitalist exploitation inevitably decreases the rate of profit, and that decreased rate of profit leads to monopolies.
Adrian Daub • What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848
Kant himself, in the second formulation of his categorical imperative, said that everything has its value, but man has his dignity – a human being should never become a means to an end. But already in the economic system of the last few decades, most working people had been turned into mere means, degraded to become mere tools for economic life. It
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