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One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you...

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This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of natu...

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But the more time has been released from production, the more imperative it has become to absorb tha...

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David HarveySeventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...

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Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he ...

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J. M. CoetzeeLife and Times of Michael K

Every historical form of society is in its foundation a form of organization of labor. While every p...

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Leon TrotskyTerrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky

As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic:...

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Leon TrotskyTerrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky

Here we come upon the old, old craze of the world, which has not yet learned to do without clericali...

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Couldn't I for once have you and the work at the same time?

So there is nothing inherently subversive about pleasure. On the contrary, as Karl Marx recognized, ...

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Though I cannot entirely agree with you in supposing that extreme study has been the cause of my lat...

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