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Capitalism's Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown 2010-2014 QUOTES

Capitalism's Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown 2010-2014 QUOTES

1 " Elections outside the workplace stand in an ambivalent relation to capitalism’s exclusion of real democracy inside. On the one hand, elections distract people from their conscious and unconscious upsets with working conditions. Elections focus instead on political candidates, parties, and alternative policies around issues other than capitalism versus alternative economic systems and other than their respective working conditions. That is why supporters of capitalism appreciate elections. Well-controlled elections do not question, let alone threaten, capitalism. "

― Richard D. Wolff , Capitalism's Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown 2010-2014

2 " The importance of publications like Capitalism’s Crisis Deepens lies in their reinsertion of repressed discourses into public conversations. The once robust debates over capitalism and alternative economic systems were never settled in the Cold War or by the implosion of the former Soviet Union. They were only temporarily submerged first by anticommunist hysteria and then, after 1989, by delusional capitalist triumphalism. The 2008 crash of global capitalism reopened the space for those debates to resume. Now however, they have to take account of the many changes within capitalism, socialism, and communism—conceptual as well as practical—over the last half century. "

― Richard D. Wolff , Capitalism's Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown 2010-2014