David Graeber Quotes

I get up every morning and think...today I'm going to end capitalism.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil. You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.

The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The human species imagined money into existence, and it exists - for us, not mice or wasps - because we go on believing in it.

While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

If experts were usually right, socialism would prevail.

The problem is capitalism. The only solution, as difficult as this may be to contemplate at the present time, is socialism.

As a poodle may have his hair cut long or his hair cut short, as he may be trimmed with pink ribbons or with blue ribbons, yet he remains the same old poodle, so capitalism may be trimmed with factory laws, tenement laws, divorce laws and gambling laws, but it remains the same old capitalism. These “humanitarian parts” are only trimming the poodle. Socialism, one and inseparable with its “antirent and anticapital parts,” means to get rid of the poodle..

The capitalist process shapes things and souls for socialism.

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

Democracy and capitalism have both been hacked.

When capitalism changes, so must socialism.

Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.

We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.

The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed.

... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.

I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.

Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the latest demonstration, like a laboratory experiment for all to see. Yet those who are loudest in proclaiming their desire to eliminate poverty are loudest in denouncing capitalism. Man's well-being is not their goal.

Every time I say the word capitalism, everyone just assumes I have plenty of Marxism in me, I do. But Russia and China had their bloody revolutions and even while they were Communist, they had the same idea about generating wealth - tear it out of the bowels of the earth. And now they have come out with the same idea in the end... you know, capitalism. But capitalism will fail, too.

Capitalism Survive?—I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society.

Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism...........Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.

Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.

Global capitalism is simply accepted as a fact that you cannot do anything about. The only question is, Will you accommodate yourself to it, or will you be dismissed and excluded?