“Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many.” — Adam Smith
Adam Smith
Who Was The Real Adam Smith? by The Anti-Social Socialist
“Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many.” ― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 1776
Ecology and the Pathology of Capitalism, by Charles Sullivan
By Charles Sullivan
Information Clearing House
January 20, 2012
Contrary to everything we have been taught, there is no actual United States of America. The U.S. is an occupied territory that could more accurately be described as the Corporate States of America. If the geopolitical states are united, the people are not. We are a nation divided by ideology and by social and economic class. The U.S. is not a democracy and it never was. The systems of power do not allow the voice of working people to be heard or their collective will to be acted upon.
Chomsky On Adam Smith (1995)
Updated: Dec. 5, 2014
By Noam Chomsky
Information Clearing House
May 04, 2009
Excerpted from Class Warfare – 1995
“What we would call capitalism he despised”
David Barsamian: One of the heroes of the current right-wing revival… is Adam Smith. You’ve done some pretty impressive research on Smith that has excavated… a lot of information that’s not coming out. You’ve often quoted him describing the “vile maxim of the masters of mankind: all for ourselves and nothing for other people.”



