Top 6 Karl Polanyi Quotes

#1. Enclosures have been appropriately called a revolution of the rich against the poor.

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#2. Our thesis is that the idea of a self-adjusting market implied a stark utopia. Such an institution could not exist for any length of time without annihilating the human and natural substance of society; it would have physically destroyed man and transformed his surroundings into a wilderness.

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#3. the organization of labor is only another word for the forms of life of the common people, this means that the development of the market system would be accompanied by a change in the organization of society itself. All along the line, human society had become an accessory of the economic system.

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#4. the selfish gladly consoled themselves with the thought that though it was merciful at least it was not liberal;

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#5. Poverty was nature surviving in society; that the limitedness of food and the unlimitedness of men had come to an issue just when the promise of boundless increase of wealth burst in upon us made the irony only the more bitter.

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#6. To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment ... would result in the demolition of society.

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