#2,983

The Gospels and the Communist Manifesto are on the wane; the world’s future lies in the power of Coca-Cola and pornography.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 477

#2,946

In modern society, capitalism is the only barrier to the spontaneous totalitarianism of the industrial system.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 470

#2,688

The modern mentality is the child of human pride puffed up by commercial advertising.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 433

#2,463

The “ownership mentality,” so sharply censured by modern man, has transformed into a usufruct mentality that avidly exploits persons, works, things, without reserve, without pity, without shame.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 396

#2,433

Socialism makes use of greed and misery; capitalism makes use of greed and the vices.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 392

#2,356

The rich man, in capitalist society, does not know how to put money to its best use: so that he does not have to think about it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 381

#2,334

Capitalism is the monstrous distortion of private property by liberal democracy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 378

#2,194

The ease with which industrial capitalism constructs and destroys—obeying clear precepts of profitability—transforms the average man into an intellectual, moral, and physical nomad.
Whatever is permanent today is an obstacle.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 357

#2,080

When the business acumen of some exploits the cultural sanctimoniousness of others, one says that culture is spreading.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 337

#2,002

If one only aspires to provide a growing number of persons with a growing number of goods, without worrying about the quality of the persons, or of the goods, then capitalism is the perfect solution.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 326

#1,855

Capitalism is the vulgar side of the modern soul, socialism its tedious side.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 304

#1,642

Socialism is the commercial name of state capitalism on the electoral market.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 275

#1,423

Modern optimism is a commercial product designed to oil the wheels of industry.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 241

#1,370

Artificially fomenting greed, in order to become rich by satisfying it, is the unforgiveable sin of capitalism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 234

#1,181

The three stages of capitalism: in the first, the businessman trades in order to construct palaces for himself; in the second, to reinvest his earnings; in the third, to pay taxes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 207

#1,103

Capitalist society became wealthy by joining the ignorance of an astute entrepreneur, whose job is to direct, with the science of a stupid technician, whose job is to execute.
Socialism seeks to become wealthy by entrusting the task of directing to the technician.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 195

#942

Capitalism is abominable because it achieves that disgusting prosperity promised in vain by the socialism that hates it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 170

#847

It would be easier to resolve modern problems, if, for example, it were possible to sustain the Utopian fantasy that what causes the multiplication of plastic objects is only the manufacturer’s commercial greed, and not the idiotic admiration of the presumed buyers.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 155

#845

With the object of preventing dangerous concentrations of economic power in the hands of a few anonymous associations, socialism proposes that the totality of economic power be entrusted in a lone anonymous association called the state.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 155

#844

An economy is called socialist if it needs to make great efforts to set up the spontaneous mechanisms of capitalism.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 155