Modern capitalism has created a world totally different from anything known before...increased production has become an end in itself...growth is for the sake of growth and is not determined by any overarching social purpose. And that, of course, is an exact account of the phenomenon which, when it occurs in the human body, is called cancer.
In the long perspective of history, it would be difficult to deny that the exuberant capitalism of the last 250 years will be diagnosed in the future as a desperately dangerous case of cancer in the body of human society -if indeed this cancer has not been terminal and there are actually survivors around to make the diagnosis.
-from Foolishness To The Greeks by Leslie Newbigin
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