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Charlotte Brontë • Jane Eyre: (Annotated Edition)
It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
Mark Fisher • Capitalist Realism: Is there no alternative?
The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and, naturally, can come to no other conclusion than that the lot of being common to all will likewise fall to the women
Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848
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Charlotte Brontë • Jane Eyre: (Annotated Edition)
He is concerned with the liberation of man from a kind of work which destroys his individuality, which transforms him into a thing, and which makes him into the slave of things. Just as Kierkegaard was concerned with the salvation of the individual, so Marx was, and his criticism of capitalist society is directed not at its method of distribution... See more
Marx's Concept of Man. Erich Fromm 1961
the rejection of the market as an organizing principle of social relations, the abolishment of private ownership of the means of production, and the nature and meaning of egalitarianism.