Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable effects on the productive capa…

- Allen W. Wood

Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process o…

- Allen W. Wood

Capitalism has proven to be a far more terrible system than Marx could ever bring himself to imagine. Those who are so deluded as to find something g…

- Allen W. Wood

Capitalism now seems more likely a swamp, a bog, a quicksand in which humanity is presently flailing about, unable to extricate itself, perhaps doome…

- Allen W. Wood

People are often most proud of precisely those things of which they should most be ashamed.

- Allen W. Wood

Consequentialist theories begin with a very simple and undoubtedly valid point: Every action aims at a future end, and is seen as a means to it.

- Allen W. Wood

It is sad to witness the persistence in our society of the racism and xenophobia that seems to be a permanent part of our political culture. It is sh…

- Allen W. Wood

Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.

- Allen W. Wood

In general, those who defend capitalism are basically out of touch with reality.

- Allen W. Wood