3 Ellen Willis Quotes on Capitalism

Ellen Willis quotes on capitalism

15. Today the changes that are generating enormous inequality, progressively destroying 'real jobs' with security and benefits, demanding longer and longer hours and at least two incomes per household as prerequisites for a minimally middle-class existence, and depriving people of control over their work even in the professional classes are taking place in the absence of any credible opposition to the free-market dogma that rules the day. On the contrary, the capitalist triumphalists are riding high on a wave of 'prosperity' that has enriched a minority of the population while obscuring the long-term slippage of our standard of living and our quality of life.

22. A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket values; to subordinate every aspect of American life to corporate 'efficiency' and the bottom line; to demonize not only government but the very idea of public service and public goods.

39. On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.