Joyce Appleby Quotes
Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.
Appleby, Joyce. The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism. W. W. Norton & Company, 2010, p. 25.
In his economic view, managers, accountants, attorneys, owners, shareholders, landlords, were all supported by the workers who have to support themselves and all the others.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston. He favored and argued for a middle ground of a capitalistic socialism or a socialized capitalism, which is what most democracies became.
At the time, it did seem impossible that labor and capital would ever have harmonious relations. But the notion that slavery would solve the problem is as preposterous as anything ever entered into the American political dialogue. But there were many in the South, and some in the North, who actually believed it. Even 150 years later, while labor and capital relations were much better than pre Civil War, they still could not be described as “harmonious” or “friendly”.
See Howard Zinn, 1922-2010 {38477} for a later, narrower view with respect to America.
This quotation and other material were so radical and inflammatory that Calhoun wrote and published this anonymously.
Joyce Oldham Appleby was an American historian. She was a professor of history at UCLA. She was president of the Organization of American Historians (1991) and the American Historical Association (1997).
