Zitate von David McNally
David McNally
Geburtstag: 1. Juli 1953
Andere Namen: David McNally (professor)
David McNally ist ein marxistisch orientierter, kanadischer Politikwissenschaftlicher und Professor an der York University. Er ist auch als politischer Aktivist tätig.
Zitate David McNally
„Contrary to liberal myth, Smith was not an apologist for capitalists.“
Quelle: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 3, The Invisible Hand Is A Closed Fist, p. 61
Kontext: Contrary to liberal myth, Smith was not an apologist for capitalists. He argued in fact, that capitalists always seek "to deceive and oppress the public" by conspiring to inflate their prices and profits.
„In many respects, the Second World War was a continuation of the First, a conflict triggered by the mismatch between industrial power and imperial reach.“
Quelle: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 4, The Colour Of Money, p. 150
„What was it, then, about the development of capitalism that gave rise to modern racial ideology?“
Quelle: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 4, The Colour Of Money, p. 112
„At its heart, this book is about where this new left has come from, and where it might be going.“
Preface, p. 11
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
„Common wealth is in the process of being transferred from the public domain to the private sector.“
Quelle: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 3, The Invisible Hand Is A Closed Fist, p. 70
„When history moves — really moves — it does so in great convulsive jolts.“
Quelle: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 1, This Is What Democracy Looks Like, p. 13
„Corporate globalization and the economic agreements designed to entrench it have little to do with trade — and all but the most ignorant neo-liberal pundits surely know this too.“
Quelle: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 2, Globalization - It's Not About Free Trade, p. 30
„The fundamental truth about globalization — that it represents freedom for capital and unfreedom for labour — is especially clear where global migrants are concerned.“
Quelle: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 4, The Colour Of Money, p. 137
„A society that has moved beyond commodification is one that has embraced the most thoroughgoing radical democracy in all spheres of social life.“
Quelle: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 7, Freedom Song, p. 234
„"Free trade" is a slogan used to attack practices designed by competitor economies to protect their own interests.“
Quelle: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 2, Globalization - It's Not About Free Trade, p. 33
„Genuine growth is always dialogical — it requires engagement in a dynamic, developing, and open-ended dialogue.“
Quelle: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 7, Freedom Song, p. 231
„Behind their fluffy rhetoric about free trade and free markets lurks a hostility toward freedom for ordinary people — and a love affair with police and prisons.“
Quelle: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 2, Globalization - It's Not About Free Trade, p. 52
„The suffering inflicted by this present order invariably produces a struggle to overcome it.“
Conclusion, p. 275
Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002)
„Once capitalist classes learn to live with unions — which they generally do reluctantly, only after efforts to crush them have failed — they then attempt to co-opt organized labour. They do so by courting a "special relationship" with union leaders who, as their organizations become larger and more complex, typically assume the role of full time union functionaries.“
Quelle: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 6, Democracy Against Capitalism, p. 208
„In short, the rules of behaviour in capitalist society systematically produce irrational consequences.“
Quelle: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 3, The Invisible Hand Is A Closed Fist, p. 86
„"Free trade" is a policy imposed on the weakest and evaded by the most powerful.“
Quelle: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 2, Globalization - It's Not About Free Trade, p. 33
„To make history — to change the actual course of world events — is intoxicating, inspiring, and life-transforming.“
Quelle: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 1, This Is What Democracy Looks Like, p. 23
„The neoliberal utopia of unrestrained capitalism is being created by a war against the poor and the commons. In fact, the "new enclosures" are a sign that the struggles that marked the birth of capitalism are still very much alive.“
Quelle: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 3, The Invisible Hand Is A Closed Fist, p. 69
„Put baldly, globalization has been nothing less than a mechanism for a massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich — in other words, exactly what it is was designed to be.“
Quelle: Another World Is Possible : Globalization and Anti-capitalism (2002), Chapter 2, Globalization - It's Not About Free Trade, p. 47
