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The
system of corporate life is a new power for which our
language contains no name. We have no word to express
government by moneyed corporations
-- Charles Francis Adams
Capitalism
is a thug's economy, a heartless economy, a base and
vile and largely boring economy. It is the antithesis
of human fulfillment and development. It mocks equity
and justice. It enshrines greed... Capitalism sucks.
Does anyone seriously want to contest that?
-- Michael Albert
“We
have to choose between a global market driven
only by calculations of short-term profit, and
one which has a human face.”
--
Kofi Annan
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“We
must ensure that the global market is embedded
in broadly shared values and practices that
reflect global social needs, and that all the
world's people share the benefits of globalization.”
-- Kofi Annan
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“Business,
labor and civil society organizations have skills and
resources that are vital in helping to build a more
robust global community.”
-- Kofi Annan
The
greatest weapon of mass destruction is corporate economic
globalization.
-- Kenny Ausubel
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....the
globalization that characterizes today’s economics
goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual
states, and thus the power of their rulers.
It is not they, but rather financial groups
in control of vast amounts of capital, who decide
upon their vertiginous passage through nations,
without taking into account the serious crises
they might generate.
-- Patricio Aylwin
Azócar
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We are committed with our lives to building a
different model and a different future for humanity,
the Earth, and other species. We have envisaged
a moral alternative to economic globalization
and we will not rest until we see it realized.
-- Maude Barlow
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"I
would define globalization as the freedom for my group
of companies to invest where it wants when it wants,
to produce what it wants, to buy and sell where it wants,
and support the fewest restrictions possible coming
from labour laws and social conventions."
-- (Percy Barnevik, President of the ABB Industrial
Group)
A
single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell
has a greater impact on the health of the planet than
all the coffee-ground-composting, organic-cotton-wearing
ecofreaks gathering in Washington D.C., for Earth Day
festivities this weekend.
-- Sharon Begley
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Changing the structure and rules of the global
economy will require a mass movement based on
messages of compassion, justice, and equality,
as well as collaborative and democratic processes
... If we stay positive, inclusive, and democratic,
we have a truly historic opportunity to build
a global movement for social justice.
-- Medea Benjamin
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For
complex reasons, our culture allows "economy"
to mean only "money economy." It equates success
and even goodness with monetary profit because
it lacks any other standard of measurement. I
am no economist, but I venture to suggest that
one of the laws of such an economy is that a farmer
is worth more dead than alive. A second law is
that anything diseased is more profitable than
anything that is healthy. What is wrong with us
contributes more to the "gross national product"
than what is right with us.
~ Wendell
Berry
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The
liberal political tradition provides no coherent response
to the obvious question: Why should the rights of ownership
prevail over the rights of democratic citizenry in determining
who is to manage the affairs of a business enterprise
whose policies might directly affect as many as half
a million employees, and whose choice of product, location,
and technology touches entire communities and beyond?
-- Samuel Bowels
If
you thought the army was here protecting people like
yourself, I've some news for you, we're here to defend
wealth.
-- Billy Bragg
If
only more of today's military personnel would
realize that they are being used by the owning
elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist
goon squad
-- Major General
Smedley Butler
Why
don't those damn oil companies fly their own
flags on their personal property-maybe a flag
with a gas pump on it.
-- Major General
Smedley Butler
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...
the 20th century has been characterized by three developments
of great political importance: The growth of democracy,
the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate
propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power
against democracy.
-- Alex Carey, Australian social scientist
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Globalization,
as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice
thing... you are talking about the Internet, you
are talking about cell phones, you are talking
about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds
of the people of the world.
-- Jimmy Carter
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I think there are a lot of strong leaders around
the world who have made very convincing arguments
about the weakness of corporate-led globalization
and the compelling nature of alternatives.
-- John Cavanagh
A
huge part of our power came from our moral authority
... the moral issue of debts as being killers
of millions of poor people around the world...I
think our power is also rooted in our intellectual
power. I think there are a lot of strong leaders
around the world who have made very convincing
arguments about the weakness of corporate-led
globalization and the compelling nature of alternatives.
-- John Cavanagh
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What
is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of
corporate mercantilism, with huge and largely
unaccountable private tyrannies exercising vast
control over the economy, political systems, and
social and cultural life...
-- Noam Chomsky
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In
any institution-factory, university, health center,
or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought
to be represented in decision-making: the work force
itself, the community in which it is located, users
of its products or services, institutions that compete
for the same resources. These interests should be directly
represented in democratic structures that displace and
eliminate private ownership of the means of production
or resources, an anachronism with no legitimacy.
-- Noam Chomsky
What
is called 'capitalism'is basically a system of corporate
mercantilism, with huge and largely unaccountable private
tyrannies exercising vast control over the economy,
political systems, and social and cultural life, operating
in close cooperation with powerful states that intervene
massively in the domestic economy and international
society.
-- Noam Chomsky
In
considering how human rights might serve as a 'guiding
value' in American foreign policy, one should not dismiss
the historical record, which is ample. There is indeed
a close relationship between human rights and American
foreign policy. There is substantial evidence that American
aid and diplomatic support increase as human rights
violations increase, at least in the Third World. Extensive
violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction
of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored
death squads, destruction of representative institutions
or of independent unions, etc.) are directly correlated
with US government support. The linkage is not accidental;
rather it is systematic. The reason is obvious enough.
Client fascism often improves the business climate for
American corporations, quite generally the guiding factor
in foreign policy. It would be naïve indeed to think
that this will change materially, given the realities
of American social structure and the grip of the state
ideological system.
-- Noam Chomsky
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There's
two globalizations... The elite globalization
represents minority forces. The elite globalization
is about making money... The people's globalization,
the democratic mass globalization is about life
values.
-- Kevin Danaher
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The
global economy works for about twenty percent
of the world, for about eighty percent it doesn't.
-- Kevin Danaher
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We
have a global economy that is not structured around
democratizing and including people in the decision-making.
It's operated in secret.
-- Kevin Danaher
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There's
two globalizations. There's the globalization of the
elites, of the corporations, represented by the World
Bank, the IMF, the World Trade Organization. That's
the global state. It's a secret global government information.
There's another globalization that's grass roots globalization.
The Fair Trade Networks, the Sister Cities, Sister Schools,
Citizen Diplomacy, the work we do at Global Exchange,
linking people up at the grass roots. That represents
majority forces. The elite globalization represents
minority forces. The elite globalization is about making
money. It's money values. The people's globalization,
the democratic mass globalization is about life values.
So you got two paradigms, the money cycle and the life
cycle and they're in contestation.
-- Kevin Danaher
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Well,
we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as
a result of the overall assault on the labor movement
and as a result of the globalization of capital.
-- Angela
Davis
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Power
that controls the economy should be in the hands
of elected representatives of the people instead
of an industrial oligarchy
~ Justice
William O. Douglas
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