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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. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

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Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals. ↗

— Horace Mann

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At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

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They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but they are the major indicator of whether the manufacturing industry accepts there is a sustainable business in RFID production. ↗

— Mike Marsh

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Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. ↗

— Karl Marx

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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. ↗

— Karl Marx

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Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. ↗

— Karl Marx

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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. ↗

— Karl Marx

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I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall over. Or it's kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I'll just die. ↗

— Andrew Mason

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I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough. ↗

— John Mayer

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