David Kirkwood Quotes
A Socialist Government cannot carry on a capitalist system better than the capitalists. The men bred by a capitalist system are men of affairs who understand their business. They are not apprentices.
David Kirkwood, 1872-1955, Scottish Labor Leader & Member of the British Parliament, My Life of Revolt, 1935
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By producing growth and an increasing standard of living and universal education, capitalism’s citizens have the time, education, and resources to protest and produce social unrest. However, that assumes that there is also a democratic state. For Schumpeter and many others, capitalism and democracy go hand in hand, but many point to historical examples of one developing faster than the other.
The first sentence is often quoted by conservatives in defense of the capitalistic system. However most do not realize that Haldane was actually a socialist who was opposed to capitalism. They were unaware of the second sentence which would make them as unhappy as the first made them happy.
Li was one of the leaders urging force to repress the demonstration. He was particularly offended by the Chinese students carrying the large “Statue of Liberty,” believing that this was an overt attempt to destabilize China. This was not known till the publication of the so-called “Tiananmen Square Papers” in 2001. The Chinese government claimed that these were forgeries.
The issue of public or private ownership and control of technology is not only a product of the information age where equal access to computers, the Internet were argued as a political necessity. But there were those who made the same argument a century earlier about the new technology of the times—machines.
David Kirkwood, 1st Baron Kirkwood, PC was a British politician, trade unionist and socialist activist from the East End of Glasgow, Scotland, viewed as a leading figure of the Red Clydeside era.
