Capital.
Volume 1. "The
restless never-ending process of profit-making alone is
what [the capitalist] aims at. This boundless greed
after riches, this passionate chase after exchange-value, is
common to the capitalist and the miser; but while the miser is
merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational
miser."1a
CARNEGIE
SCHUMPETER
RAND
FRIEDMAN
AYOUB
"The capitalist knows that all
commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they
may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly
circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby
out
of money to make more money."1b
[Karl Marx was born of a German-Jewish family converted to
Christianity2a]
SPENGLER
SUZUKI
"The Roman slave was held by fetters: the
wage-labourer is bound to his owner by invisible threads. The
appearance of independence is kept up by means of a constant
change of employers, and by the
fictio juris of a contract."1c
ZINN
"The capitalist system presupposes
the complete separation of the labourers from all property in
the means by which they can realise their labour. . .
The so-called primitive accumulation, therefore, is nothing else
than the historical process of
divorcing the producer from
the means of production."1d
Capital.
Volume 3.
"[T]the pioneering entrepreneurs generally go
bankrupt, and it is only their successors who flourish, thanks
to their possession of cheaper buildings, machinery etc. Thus
it is generally the most worthless and wretched kind of
money-capitalists that draw the greatest profit from
all new developments of the universal labour of the human
spirit and their social application by combined labour."2a PASTEUR
CARNEGIE
POINCARÉ
SCHUMPETER
GHANDI
"Accumulation of capital in the form of
the national debt . . . means nothing more than the growth
of a class of state creditors with a preferential
claim to certain sums from the overall proceeds of taxation."2b
JEFFERSON
"The
credit system which has its
focal point in the allegedly national banks and the big
money-lenders and usurers that surround them, is one enormous
centralization and gives this class of parasites
a fabulous power not only to decimate the industrial
capitalists periodically but also to interfere in actual
production in the most dangerous manner . . . "2c
PLATO
KANT
JEFFERSON
RICARDO
ZINN
"'Banking
establishments are . . . moral and religious institutions . . .
Has [the young tradesman] not
trembled to be supposed guilty of deceit or the slightest
misstatement, lest it should give rise to suspicion, and his
accommodation be in consequence restricted or discontinued? . . .
And has not that friendly advice been of more value to
him than that of priest'"2d
[Quotation from G. M. Bell, a Scottish bank director]
KEYNES
AYOUB
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