David Nibert, Animal Oppression and Capitalism. (2017) p. xiv
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The capitalist system was and is not a benevolent social force created to best serve the needs of humans through the "marketplace," contrary to the propagandizing that has inundated at least the citizens in the West for a century and a half and that continues in educational systems and mass media today. Indeed, it would be impossible for an egalitarian, beneficial political-economic system to emerge from thousands of years of hypermasculine, violent, oppressive, and war-torn reality. In truth, capitalism, which morphed from the highly oppressive systems of "economic development" of the Eurasian past, simply represents a more sophisticated form of social relations in which the accumulation of wealth continues to result from exploitation, predation and violence.

— David Nibert on Capitalism

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About David Nibert

David Nibert (born 1953) is an American author and professor of sociology at Wittenberg University, and the co-organizer of the Section on Animals and Society of the American Sociological Association.