[MCN] "...pro-business politicians are in truth militantly anti-capitalist if they flinch from cracking down on bosses' crimes."

[Lance Olsen]

" … the main dangers to the success of capitalism are the very people who would consider themselves its most ardent advocates : the bosses of companies, the owners of companies, and the politicians who tirelessly insist that they are 'pro-business'.”
 
"Many of the corporate scandals that America, especially, has endured in recent years reflect outright criminality. A lawful order knows what to do with criminals, and pro-business politicians are in truth militantly anti-capitalist if they flinch from cracking down on bosses' crimes."
 
“… widespread and quite outrageous abuse, by capitalists, of capitalism … The danger exists everywhere in the world, but it matters most in the United States.”
 
The Economist, Special 160th Anniversary Issue, 
A Survey of Capitalism and Democracy, June 26-July 4, 2003

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"In a corrupt environment, resources will be directed toward  … social control and repression as the elites move to protect themselves, their positions and their material wealth.”

" …   resources otherwise available for socio-economic development will be diverted into security expenditure."

John McFarlane. Transnational Crime, Corruption and Crony Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century. Transnational Organized Crime. Vol. 4 No. 2, Summer 1998


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"We are living on the surface of this planet, with only the resources of this planet, with the fertility of its soil, with its mineral wealth, and with its climate and atmosphere. It has always been the task of mankind to find the right answer to the problem these conditions set us, and even today we cannot think that we have found a sufficient answer."

Alfred Adler (1870 –1937), quoted in The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler,Heinz L. Ansbacher and Rowena R. Ansbacker, editors

Harper Torchbooks, Harper & Row Publishers, 1956

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