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"This false appearance distinguishes wages labour from other historical forms of labour. On the basis of the wages system even the unpaid labour seems to be paid labour. With the slave, on the contrary, even that part of his labour which is paid appears to be unpaid. Of course, in order to work the slave must live, and one part of his working day goes to replace the value of his own maintenance. But since no bargain is struck between him and his master, and no acts of selling and buying are going on between the two parties, all his labour seems to be given away for nothing."
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"This false appearance distinguishes wages labour from other historical forms of labour. On the basis of the wages system even the unpaid labour seems to be paid labour. With the slave, on the contrary, even that part of his labour which is paid appears to be unpaid. Of course, in order to work the slave must live, and one part of his working day goes to replace the value of his own maintenance. But since no bargain is struck between him and his master, and no acts of selling and buying are going on between the two parties, all his labour seems to be given away for nothing."
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"The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his active life, his birthright for a mass of pottage."
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"Retirement is a stage where an employer discards an employee that he cannot exploit further."
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"But capital not only lives upon labour. Like a master, at once distinguished and barbarous, it drags with it into its grave the corpses of its slaves, whole hecatombs of workers, who perish in the crises."
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"Generational oppression begins when what is meant to be transferred to one offspring has been taken over by reason of oppression."
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"Loan sharking may mean investment and immediate solutions but desperate loan sharks, who are short of cash, abuse your rights and attack other people's home."
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"The thing that they were more freaked out was that I had done a spread for Playboy years before, and as Playboy always does, they exploit the exploitation and re-release different pictures."
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"If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs."
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."
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"We fight exploitation of man by man in words but live it in daily life."
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"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour."
Politics
"The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together."
Business
"The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money."
Writing
"The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it."
Writing
"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending."
Philosophy
"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."
Freedom
"Religion is the opium of the masses."
Contentment
"Nothing can have value without being an object of utility."
Reflection
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it."
Action
"Men [sic] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past."
History
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