Robert Heilbroner - Capitalism Quotes

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Today and over the foreseeable future, traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is doubtful that it can never recover.

Robert Heilbroner

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort, dignity, and personal advance is only a myth, or worse, a bitter mockery.

Robert Heilbroner

Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of technology, the revolutionizing effects of democratic striving, even the vagaries of capitalism, as being indeed the carriers of a brighter future.

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Less than seventy-five years after it officially began, the contest between capitalism and socialism is over: capitalism has won.

Robert Heilbroner

Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.

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