Greg Grandin Quotes

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

The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.

Many will see [globalization] as little more than a mask used by certain economic elites for taking away the voice of the individual citizen.

Western fundamentalism: By this term I mean the elevation of Western modernity above all other ways of knowing and being and it includes adherence to capitalism, individualism, patriarchy, scientific rationalism, ‘Christian’ morality, commodification of the environment, private property and a belief in progress.

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.

The high-tech, globalized capitalism of the 21st century is very different from the postwar version of capitalism that performed so magnificently for the middle classes of the Western world.

In hip-hop, as in neoliberalism, economics bullied politics out of the picture.

The '90s came, and then the 2000s, and we saw radical corporate interest extremism, we've seen the disparity between rich and poor just get bigger, with globalisation and the corporate agenda on the rise ever since.

We are often told that capitalism is in crisis, but look around the world and you'll see that it has never been so buoyant.

I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.

Capitalism is in crisis.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

The biggest lie of all is that capitalism is democracy. We have no way of understanding democracy outside of the market, just as we have no understanding of how to understand freedom outside of market values.

The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.

We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.

Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

The unfettered free market has been the most radically disruptive force in American life in the last generation.

We are told that we must open up, that trade and commerce must be totally free. Free for whom? For rogue speculators. For anarchists wanting to destroy weak countries in their crusade for open societies, to force us to submit to the dictatorship of international manipulators.

The way to hell is capitalism, neo liberalism and globalization.

Free markets were supposed to lead to free societies. Instead, today’s supercharged global economy is eroding the power of the people in democracies around the globe. Welcome to a world where the bottom line trumps the common good and government takes a back seat to big business.

Capitalism is destroying the world.

While football embarrassingly exposes the excesses of capitalism, the Olympic sports have been used to propagate the neoliberal mantra that success is simply a matter of hard work.

Harveys opened against the backdrop of Thatcher's greed culture.

Capitalism might everywhere be spreading havoc, but it is also triumphant everywhere.