Henry Giroux Quotes

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.

A market economy is a tool—a valuable and effective tool—for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values sweep into every aspect of human endeavor. It is a place where social relations are made over in the image of the market.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

I don't think capitalism can survive.

We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities.

Capitalism, in my estimation, is not about democracy. I think we're beginning to see an understanding of this. We see it in the Black Lives Matter movement. We see it among black youth who are now struggling and trying to make connections internationally with other groups and trying to figure out what's going on in the world and the ways things like police violence and systemic violence all come together under neoliberalism.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

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

After reading The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi, I realized that capitalism did not naturally grow as [Karl] Marx would imply by his theory of historical materialism. People were dragged into capitalism screaming, shouting, and fighting all along the way, trying to resist this industrial and commercial world.

Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply become impossible.

Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation, that constitutes the essence of inequality and ineradicable instability: the wage-labor-capital connection that dwells at the heart of the system.

Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.

Yes to market economy, no to market society.

I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.

Capitalism is out of control, thanks in no small part to Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision which said that a corporation is a person, even though it doesn't eat, drink, make love, sing, raise children or take care of aging parents. You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

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 cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.

If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.

One thing that I am sure of, and which I can answer truthfully, is that whatever the contingencies that may arise here, wherever I am there will be no communism.

Tyranny is the political corollary of socialism, as representative government is the political corollary of the market economy.