Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes

The State will increasingly see its sovereignty undermined by multinational capital.

There is no single sustainable model for national success. … the American model, which has indeed been successful, is not available to others, because our success depends greatly on our dominant position at the center of the global capitalist system, and we are not willing to yield it.

More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.

Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.

Business is doing better than governments.

If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade will get hold of global wealth.

Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.

Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies.

And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the gross world product is declining as Asian societies in particular develop economically.

In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled.

Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.

I think this notion that it's the population of the U.S. against the big companies is just wrong.

We're living through the twilight of American economic dominance.

Life, especially in America, is ruled by corporations.

As corporations get larger worldwide, we have to be organizing those companies worldwide.

It’s no surprise that a global economy creates a global class conflict…. All markets create classes and class conflicts.

Middle-class democracy has proved the best camouflage of the political dominance of big capital.

China is a much richer country than any part of Europe.

China became an economic power with few equals. By 2010 China gad overtaken Japan as the world’s second largest economy in terms of GDP, China’s transformation consistently drew one ideas beyond it shores.

I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.

In Western capitalism circa 2013, fear that the market economy has become dysfunctional is not limited to a few entrepreneurs in Boulder. It is being publicly expressed, with increasing frequency, by some of the people who occupy the commanding heights of the global economy.

Exxon Mobil and JPMorgan Chase each made more in profits in the first quarter of 2012 alone than the entire state budget of Montana. Without a doubt, multinational corporations like these have the resources to overwhelm the voices of the people.

The rules of the global economy are rigged against those who have to work to earn a living and in favour of multinational corporations and the ultra-rich.

Because of my politics, I don't necessarily think that the independent capitalist is that much better than the multinational capitalist; it's just that the independent capitalist hasn't grown as big yet.

Economics runs the world.