Thank God I am not a free-trader. In this country pernicious indulgence in the doctrine of free trade seems inevitably to produce fatty degeneration of the moral fibre.
The unfettered free market has been the most radically disruptive force in American life in the last generation.
Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.
... idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy in which man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption.
A lot of libertarians and ultra-capitalists like to put out this idea that competition makes for better creativity. But it's just because we don't see all the creativity that's been crushed.
Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.
It was the incarnation of blind and insensate Greed. It was a monster devouring with a thousand mouths, trampling with a thousand hoofs; it was the Great Butcher--it was the spirit of Capitalism made flesh.
In 21st century America, capitalism has been unfettered from the regulations that democratized it and made it serve society.
There is a fundamentalist belief by capitalists that capital will save the world, and it just isn't so.
The public has been sold a bill of goods about the free market being a panacea for mankind.
As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.
