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There can be no democracy without economic democracy

— Marta Russell Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings (2019)

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disabled peoples' movements seek to overturn the assertion that disability is pathological in health terms and a social problem in welfare terms. Disabled persons want to be citizens with human rights.

Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings (2019)

The ADA and equal opportunity is a non-solution for a capitalist society wherein the disabled workers and would-be workers, by definition, do not have the social or political power to realize their economic wants. Power lies at production, with the owners of capital, and the Supreme Court is one manifestation of that power.

Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings (2019)

Let the market rule? Unless disabled people see ourselves as active creators of equality (which means undoing capitalism, which can never be made equitable) we will be doomed to be tools of the owning class, and our people, like other oppressed groups, will remain impoverished.

Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings (2019)

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

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The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

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