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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.

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

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There can be no democracy without economic democracy

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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