Anti Capitalism Quotes

“It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

“We don’t think you fight fire with fire best ; we think you fight fire with water best. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism. We’re stood up and said we’re not going to fight reactionary pigs and reactionary state’s attorneys like this and reactionary state’s attorneys like Hanrahan with any other reactions on our part. We’re going to fight their reactions with all of us people getting together and having an international proletarian revolution.”
― Fred Hampton

“It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.”
― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right

“Comradeship, dignity, amorosity, love, solidarity, fraternity, friendship, ethics: all these names stand in contrast to the commodified, monetised relations of capitalism, all describe relations developed in struggles against capitalism and which can be seen as anticipating or creating a society beyond capitalism.”
― John Holloway, Crack Capitalism

“The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That’s why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows”
― Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs

“The struggle is lost from the beginning, long before the victorious party or army conquers state power and ‘betrays’ its promises. It is lost once power itself seeps into the struggle, once the logic of power becomes the logic of the revolutionary process, once the negative of refusal is converted into the positive of power-building.”
― John Holloway

“We are trapped within an economic system that has it backward; it behaves as if there is no end to what is actually finite (clean water, fossil fuels, and the atmospheric space to absord their emissions) while insisting that there are strict and immovable limits to what is actually quite flexible: the financial resources that human institutions manufacture.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

“إن هذا التركيز الهائل للسلطة والثروة يرتبط ارتباطاً مباشراً برأسمالية الانتاج الضخم في أمريكا. إن الصفقات التي تقدر بمليارات الدولارات تمنح عن طريق البنتاجون وتنفذها وتكسب منها الصناعات الكبرى”
― Bertrand Russell, جرائم الحرب في فيتنام

“Perseus wore a magic cap so that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over our own eyes and ears so as to deny that there are any monsters.”
― Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 3

“Capitalism is disgusted by those whose happiness is not a result of buying … or selling.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In a world where we didn't have to commit most of our energy to making enough money to keep a roof over our heads, we might actually have time to engage in self-reflection, community care and collective healing that will truly sustain us.”
― Cradle Community, Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons

“The sun doesn't rise because you people gave it a permit. The rain doesn't fall because you people gave it a permit, either. Long, long before you created your corporations and became obsessed with profit, nature existed. We are simply living by it.”
― Bora Chung, Your Utopia

“radical joy isn’t just a pursuit, it’s an act of defiance.”
― malebo sephodi

“Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is a system that must be changed.”
― Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

“There was a deep solace to be found within each other, we discovered. Within shared suffering, collective pain, and mutual hope. A kind of solidarity no one besides us could ever understand.
We were not dead yet.
We were alive!
Another hour, another day, another year, another eternity.
Not dead yet, just not yet.”
― Antonio Melonio, The Factory: A Marxist Tale of Revolution

“We don't want to be passive squares, boring phonies, or conformists seduced by comfort trapped in a repetitive, endless ritual of consuming, who keep buying shit that's thrown at us as a bone, who forget how to ask honest and important questions, who are just trying to make it through the day.”
― Nadya Tolokonnikova, Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism

“In a capitalist society a carefree life for the working people is inconceivable. In this society even those who are fairly well-to-do are always fearful of sudden bankruptcy, job-loss and poverty. Living a prosperous life in idleness without any thought for others cannot be regarded as a genuine human life.”
― Kim Jong Il, Abuses of Socialism are Intolerable

“Capitalism owes a third of its success to conspicuous consumption, and another third to the consumption of caffeine.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I watched as they all lifted their hammers again and again, thousands upon thousands, a wave of iron. I gazed at the Tower as we let out a cry for freedom that shook the Factory and could be heard all the way to its golden crown. Soon, this crown would melt.”
― Antonio Melonio, The Factory: A Marxist Tale of Revolution

“There would be no prosperity for all; there could not be as long as the Tower stood and these false gods ruled.

It was nothing but an instrument of control, the Tower, I saw. Built to sustain the status quo forever. These gods writhing in wealth and comfort, walking their grand lonely halls, while we would keep building their monuments of vain, under the false hope that we’d someday reach the heavens. And if not in this world, then in the afterlife.

Lies! All of it!”
― Antonio Melonio, The Factory: A Marxist Tale of Revolution

“Why do they all loathe capitalism? Why do they, while en-joying the well-being capitalism bestows upon them, cast long-ing glances upon the “good old days” of the past and the miser-able conditions of the present-day Russian worker?”
― Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-capitalistic Mentality

“Healing the planet is ultimately about creating infrastructures of caretaking that will replace infrastructures of capitalism. Capitalism is contrary to life. Caretaking promotes life.”
― The Red Nation, The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth

“There are times when you'd give a whole month away for fifty kopecks, and others when you wouldn't give up half an hour for any price.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“We've all questioned the protocol at some point in our lives. That's why we're here. We're not the sick ones. It's the people running everything who are sick. None of us were born for what the world has in store for us–endless toiling followed by consumption. We were created to be cogs in the giant assembly line of capitalism and imperialism, where free will no longer exists. Our happiness, our lives, are only valued for how willing we are to keep the whole game going.”
― Stephanie Kuehn, We Weren't Looking to Be Found

“What happens if the young are no longer capable of producing surprises?”
― Mark Fisher

“I know I was not born to simply exhaust myself inside a violent system.”
― Tricia Hersey, Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

“Capitalism's final triumph is selling you the rope to hang it with, then marketing the noose as a limited-edition lifestyle accessory.”
― PIERRE LAGRENAT

“In those days the world was not a garden and the people were not idle as they are now. Then on the face of the world there was real wilderness, empty of humanity, and the wilderness that humanity created, the wilderness that it packed with itself and which it called City. People toiled and people idled and the toilers worked for themselves and yet not for themselves and the idle did no work or little work and what they did, did only for themselves; money was all-powerful then and people said they made it work for them but money cannot work, only people and machines can work.”
― Iain M. Banks, Feersum Endjinn

“If the object of capitalism or socialism is to increase needs, the object of anarchism is to increase choice.”
― Murray Bookchin, The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy