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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

“Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.”

People Wells Looks Pleasure Function Misery Making Money Capitalist

Author:George Osborne

“The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.”

Long Hands Process Function Productions Repeats Labour Capitalist Commodity Revenue Labourers

Book:Capital

Source: Capital

“Apart from their work and production, households perform other important economic functions. Most CONSUMPTION occurs within the household. ... In developed capitalist economies, private consumption spending accounts for half or more of GDP.”

Important Half Economy Economic Accounts Function Productions Spending Capitalist Household Consumption Gdp Capitalist Economy

Book:Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism

Source: Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism

“A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.”

Men Doe Suffering Left Economy Function Bottom Genuine Liberalism Goodbye Capitalist Competing Irrelevant Microcosm Capitalist Economy

Book:The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

Source: The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

“By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle.”

Mean Hands Social Taken Special Limits Function Crisis Productions Credit Driving Capitalist Vehicle Banking Distribution Banking System

Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Karl Marx: Capital, Vol. 3