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Capitalism is the economic system in which the means of production are owned by private person, and operated for profit and where investment, distribution, income, production and pricing of goods and services are predominantly determined through the operation of a free market. Capitalism is usually considered to involve the right of individuals and corporation to trade, incorporate, employ workers, and use money, in goods, services (including finance), labor and land. By definition, production... full article at wikipedia

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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.	Bertrand Russell
In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a bastard brother of reform.	Wyndham Lewis
It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some blood to suck. Capitalism used to be like an eagle, but now it's more like a vulture. It used to be strong enough to go and suck anybody's blood whether they were strong or not. But now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. As the nations of the world free themselves, the capitalism has less victims, less to suck, and it becomes weaker and weaker. It's only a matter of time in my opinion before it will collapse completely.	Malcolm X
The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily -- and perhaps most tellingly -- described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.	Joseph Schumpeter
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.	Karl Marx
The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.	Albert Camus
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.	Abraham Lincoln
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.	Winston Churchill
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.	Mahatma Gandhi
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.	Vladimir Lenin
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