Moravian-US "economist, sociologist".
He was well known for his theories of capitalist development and business cycles.
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest."
Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.
"Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political -- legislative and administrative -- decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself."
"Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil."
"To the believer [Marxism] presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions . . ."