William Greider Quotes
What Americans should by now be able to see is that neither the laissez-faire marketplace nor strong government has given them a satisfying or permanent resolution. The problem is not the marketplace and it is not government. The problem originates in the contest of clashing values between society and capitalism and, since this human society cannot surrender its deepest values, it must try to alter capitalism's.
William Greider, Journalist & Editor, The Soul of Capitalism
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Most classic socialists would not agree, but Deng’s approach created the most economically successful socialist economy in history.
This rigid view left no room for regulation which is what almost every modern industrial democracy has chosen. To some of his extremist followers, any government regulation of business or the economy whatsoever, regardless of how little, means that the nation has embraced socialism. It is in this sense that many extreme right wingers viewed Presidents like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama as socialists while they saw themselves as opponents of socialism.
For many critics of a market society, the advocate getting the benefit of a market economy without going so far as to create a market society.
[The metaphor of the stone tablets revers to Moses coming down the mountain and his interaction with God, carrying the 10 Commandments carved in stone tablets.]
William Harold Greider was an American journalist and author who wrote primarily about economics.
