"Capitalism is “the astonishing belief that the nastiest motives of the nastiest men somehow or other work for the best results in the best of all possible worlds.”"

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Recent variant: Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. — As quoted in Moving Forward: Programme for a Participatory Economy (2000) by Michael Albert, p. 128