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Quotes from Exploitation of Labor — Itsurō Sakisaka

1897–1985 Japan

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Marx refers to the value invested on the means of production as constant capital.

Exploitation of Labor (1967)

Once the means of production have become capital, a certain quantity of value is augmented through the exploitation of labor. And this valorizing value is capital.

Exploitation of Labor (1967)

In the case of the exploitation of slave labor, by contrast, things are exceedingly clear. Slaves, who exist as a sort of animal owned by another human being, have no freedom. Like a dog, a slave is unable to exercise any degree of physical or mental freedom.

Exploitation of Labor (1967)

The idle lives of a minority ruling class can only be maintained by products, needless to say. So the only method to bring about this state of affairs is to appropriate, gratis, the fruits of labor of those who work by the sweat of their brow.

Exploitation of Labor (1967)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Itsurō Sakisaka (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.