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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. (Tse-Tung Mao)
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. (Tse-Tung Mao)
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed. (Tse-Tung Mao)
Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital. (Tse-Tung Mao)
The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism. (Tse-Tung Mao)
Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country. (Tse-Tung Mao)
The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a fellow who, by definition, can ill afford to believe in anything other than the doctrine of the bottom line. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state from whose grimy fingers the Reagan Administration hopes to snatch the ark of democracy. (Tse-Tung Mao)
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. (Tse-Tung Mao)
In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a bastard brother of reform. (Tse-Tung Mao)
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. (Tse-Tung Mao)
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. (Tse-Tung Mao)
Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. (Tse-Tung Mao)
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. (Tse-Tung Mao)
Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due. (Tse-Tung Mao)
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. (Tse-Tung Mao)
The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily -- and perhaps most tellingly -- described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit. (Tse-Tung Mao)
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. (Tse-Tung Mao)
The far right seeks to retain the material progress of American capitalism while removing some of its crucial causes and consequences -- as though a bridge could be made to change part of its function by blowing up part of its supports and part of its exit. (Tse-Tung Mao)
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion of possibility. (Tse-Tung Mao)
The first rule of venture capitalism should be Shoot the Inventor. (Tse-Tung Mao)
Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor. (Tse-Tung Mao)
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