Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.
Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.
We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.
Capitalism is part of our system, but it's not for the faint of heart.
Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of the answers to its own contradictions.
My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.
Capitalism is like the law of the jungle with a few rules. There isn't another system that works for our society but left unchecked, capitalism can have a dehumanising effect.
Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy.
Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook.