Money Wisdom #453

"Capitalism and communism were like the two twin brothers who supported each other, each challenging and at the same time seeking to eliminate the other. One of them died of exhaustion, and the other needs a new adversary, or lacking that, a tutor who could correct it. It owes its survival to its enemies as much as to its followers, and draws its dynamism from being constantly attacked and thus obliged to reform itself."

Pascal Bruckner The Wisdom of Money (2017) p. 205