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According to Fisher, the quotation "it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism", attributed to both Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek, encompasses the essence of capitalist realism. Capitalist realism is loosely defined as the predominant conception that capitalism is the only viable economic system, and thus there ...
Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical with the pursuit of profit, and forever renewed profit, by means of continuous, rational, capitalistic enterprise. For it must be so: in a wholly capitalistic order of society, an individual capitalistic ...
These reforms included rendering gas and water supplies public services, controlled by the government, clearing slums and the introduction of a city park system. [5] Chamberlain's approach was also described as "gas and water socialism". [6] Chamberlain's reforms were influential on Beatrice Webb, one of the leaders of the Fabian movement.
She cites Max Weber as being most influential to her view, emphasising “his emphasis on contingency and unintended consequences in the formation of capitalism." [3] She is broadly positive towards the dynamic nature of capitalism, describing figures such as Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Zeiss or Krupp as "swashbuckling heroes of enterprise".
He wrote that he noticed that "the regional chamber of commerce, the New England Council, had a thoughtful slogan: 'A rising tide lifts all the boats.'" From then on, Kennedy would borrow the slogan often. Sorensen highlighted that as an example of quotes mistakenly attributed to Kennedy. [4]
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CNN Opinion’s Bethany Cianciolo spoke with Ruchir Sharma about how capitalism has become increasingly distorted, and why true capitalism is still the best economic system.
A related quote from Engels comes from Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884): The society which organizes production anew on the basis of free and equal association of the producers will put the whole state machinery where it will then belong—into the museum of antiquities, next to the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.