“[C]apitalism is as much to blame for the consolidation and homogenization of nations as champions of progressive central planning are, if not more so.”

2010s, 2018, Socialism is So Hot Right Now (2018)

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American political writer and pundit 1969

Michael Harrington (1928–1989) American political writer

Source: Socialism: Past and Future (1989), p. 67

“Planning is undoubtedly necessary to ensure progress. If Nations and Peoples are finding it difficult to fulfil their own Plans, then who is going to be so presumptuous as to plan for the whole world? In these times of Cold Wars and Bamboo and Iron Curtains do we suppose one Nation will sit idly by and let another take the initiative in this respect? Even suppose the impossible does occur do you think the other Nations will accept the Plan of another with whom they are outwardly in peaceful contact?”

Peter de Noronha (1897–1970) Indian businessman

The Pageant of Life (1964), On Planning for a Better World

“What's plan b?'
'We all die now.'
'What's plan c?”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Source: Astonishing X-Men, Volume 4: Unstoppable

“Sorry my life is so much more bitchin' than yours. I planned it this way.”

Charlie Sheen (1965) American film and television actor

On TMZ, February 28 2011

“On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Source: The Color of Magic

“In Islam's golden age, so much progress was made that it became the basis of the European Renaissance. We Muslims have to change ourselves, that's the main difference. We can't keep blaming America or Israel for our misery.”

Irshad Manji (1968) Feminist from Canada, author, journalist, activist

Süddeutsche Zeitung http://www.signandsight.com/intodaysfeuilletons/1346.html May 16, 2007

“My intention is to make in Drenthe so much progress in painting that when I come back I may be qualified for the 'Society of Draughtsmen' [a group of London illustrators]. This stands again in connection with the second plan of going to England”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

to become an illustrator <br class="br">Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from The Hague, The Netherlands, Summer 1883; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 319) p. 21 <br class="br">1880s, 1883

“Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World Revisited

Source: Brave New World Revisited (1958), Chapter 3 (p. 19)

“The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century.”

Vernor Vinge (1944) American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer

The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)

“Goals are good for planning your progress and systems are good for actually making progress.”

James Clear (1986) American author and speaker

Source: https://jamesclear.com/goals-systems

“[C]apitalism is as much to blame for the consolidation and homogenization of nations as champions of progressive central planning are, if not more so.”

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