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“Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.”

Way Economy Impossible Labor Function Workers Strikes Selling Live By Capitalist Capitalist Economy

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.”

“With conglomerates selling companies to liquidators, who close down plants and move to non-union areas, it's about time progressive union leaders step in to stop such job-losing tactics... ESOP should become a part of future bargaining packages!”

Should Wisdom Jobs Moving Politics Company Leader Steps Economy Losing Areas Unions Plant Selling Liberalism Progressive Tactics Packages Bargaining Esops

Author:Tom Colicchio

“To a proprietor of a mine, the silver money is a produce with which he buys what he has occasion for. To all those through whose hands this silver afterwards passes, it is only the price of the produce which they themselves have raised by means of their property in land, their capitals, or their industry. In selling them they in the first place exchange them for money, and afterwards they exchange the money for articles of consumption.”

Firsts Mean Hands Politics Economy Land Produce Mines Industry Property Raised Selling Occasions Liberalism Silver Articles Consumption

Book:Letters to Thomas Robert Malthus on Political Economy and Stagnation of Commerce

Source: Letters to Thomas Robert Malthus on Political Economy and Stagnation of Commerce

“It's astonishing how many business owners are terrified of selling. Salespeople who see the most people a day are the highest paid regardless of the economy.”

People Economy Highest Paid Selling Owners Terrified Astonishing Business Owners Salespeople

Author:Brian Tracy

“We don't measure whether an economy is developing. We just measure whether companies are selling more, whether inventories are up or down, not whether the health, safety and economic well-being of people are being advanced.”

People Wells Company Economy Economic Safety Selling Developing Well Being Inventory Selling More

Author:Ralph Nader