Paul Sweezy Quotes

American economist (1910–2004)

Paul Marlor Sweezy (April 10, 1910 – February 27, 2004) was an American Marxian economist, political activist, publisher, and founding editor of the long-running magazine .

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It seems obvious that in this way the economist avoids a systematic exploration of those social relations which are so universally regarded as having a relevance to economic problems that they are deeply imbedded in the everyday speech of the business world. And it is even more obvious that the basic point of view which modern economics has adopted unfits it for the larger task of throwing light on the role of the economic element in the complex totality of relations between man and man which make up what we call society.

Society is more than a number of individuals. It is a number of individuals among whom certain definite and more or less stable relations exist.

The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.