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“Mass imprisonment generates profits as it devours social wealth, and thus it tends to reproduce the very conditions that lead people to prison. There are thus real and often quite complicated connections between the deindustrialization of the economy—a process that reached its peak during the 1980s—and the rise of mass imprisonment, which also began to spiral during the Reagan-Bush era.”
― Are Prisons Obsolete?
― Are Prisons Obsolete?
“Modern-day exploitation, however, is designed by the appearance of a fair deal. It seems that workers are paid a fair day's wage for a fair day's work, as the saying goes. But we are not paid for our work, we are paid for our labor-power, and therein lies the rub.”
― A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
― A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics
“[Statists] forget to prove to us that it is possible to put an end to exploitation while the primal causes - private capital and poverty, two-thirds of which are artificially created by the state - continue to exist.”
― The Conquest of Bread
― The Conquest of Bread
“A virulent form of utopianism has indeed afflicted the Modern Age, but its name is not Marxism. It is the crazy notion that a single global system known as the free-market can impose itself on the most diverse cultures and economies and cure all their ills.”
― Why Marx Was Right
― Why Marx Was Right
“[the idea that history arises in phases] is not what Marxism teaches. To say that capitalism can be drawn on for an improved future is not to imply that it exists for that reason. Nor does socialism follow necessarily from it. It is not to suggest that the crimes of capitalism are justified by the advent of socialism. Nor is it to claim that capitalism was bound to emerge. Modes of production do not arise necessarily. It is not as though they are linked to all previous stages by some internal logic. No stage of the process exists for the sake of the others. History for Marx is not moving in any particular direction. Capitalism can be used to build socialism, but there's no sense in which the whole historical process is secretly laboring towards the goal.”
― Why Marx Was Right
― Why Marx Was Right
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