Friedrich Engels: The opposite of competition is monopoly. Monopoly was the war-cry of the Mercantilists; competition the battle-cry of the liberal economists. It is easy to see that this antithesis is again a quite hollow antithesis. Every competitor cannot but desire to have the monopoly, be he worker, capitalist or landowner. Each smaller group of competitors cannot but desire to have the monopoly for itself against all others. Competition is based on self-interest, and self-interest in turn breeds monopoly. In short, competition passes over into monopoly. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9451

Ronald Reagan: If fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9452

Walter Lippmann: Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9453

Martin Wolf: Corporations are not rule-takers but rather rule-makers. They play games whose rules they have a big role in creating, via politics. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9454

Walter Lippmann: The creation of consent is not a new art. It is a very old one which was supposed to have died out with the appearance of democracy. But it has not died out. It has, in fact, improved enormously in technic, because it is now based on analysis rather than on rule of thumb. And so, as a result of psychological research, coupled with the modern means of communication, the practice of democracy has turned a corner. A revolution is taking place, infinitely more significant than any shifting of economic power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9455