Michal Kalecki famous quotes

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The workers spend what they get, and capitalists get what they spend.
-- Michal Kalecki

#Workers #Capitalist
The capitalists of a country which manages to capture foreign markets from other countries are able to increase their profits at the expense of the capitalists of the other countries. Similarly, a colonial metropolis may achieve an export surplus through investment in its dependencies.
-- Michal Kalecki

#Country #May #Able
It is indeed paradoxical that, while the apologists of capitalism usually consider the 'price mechanism' to be the great advantage of the capitalist system, price flexibility proves to be a characteristic feature of the socialist economy.
-- Michal Kalecki

#Socialist Economy #Advantage #Characteristics

I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.
A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
To the worker, God himself lends aid.
My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental.
Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.
Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.
Exploitation is not exclusively capitalist, but wealth creation is.
So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
The crisis is the price for the capitalist system

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