Terry Eagleton: Capital

Terry Eagleton is British writer, academic and educator. Explore interesting quotes on capital.

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“Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.”

Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 7, p. 177

“It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.”

Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 4, p. 65

“The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.”

Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 9, p. 197

“Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us. The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.”

Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 10, p. 236

“You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.”

Preface, p. xi
2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011)

“We face a probable future of nuclear-armed states warring over a scarcity of resources; and that scarcity is largely the consequence of capitalism itself. For the first time in history, our prevailing form of life has the power not simply to breed racism and spread cultural cretinism, drive us into war or herd us into labour camps, but to wipe us from the planet. Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism. The traditional leftist slogan ‘‘Socialism or barbarism’’ was never more grimly apposite.”

Source: 2010s, Why Marx Was Right (2011), Chapter 1, p. 8