So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears or of the...

Take a look at the history of “trucking and bartering” itself; look at the history of modern capitalism, about which we know a lot. The first thing you’ll notice is, peasants had to be driven by force and violence into a wage-labor system they did not want; then major efforts were undertaken – conscious efforts – to create wants. In fact, if you look back, there’s a whole interesting literature of conscious discussio...

(Aleksandr Zinovyev Quotes) Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society — communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism. If a Communist Party of a certain Western democracy promises to preserve after its seizure of power the positive characteristics o...

(Aleksandr Zinovyev Quotes) Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society — communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism. If a Communist Party of a certain Western democracy promises to preserve after its seizure of power the positive characteristics o...

(Ayn Rand Quotes) The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals. Poverty, ignorance, illness and other problems of that kind are not metaphysical emergencies. By the metaphysical nature of man and of existence, man has to maintain his life by his own effort; the values he needs—such as wealth or knowledge—are not given to him aut...