Sublime

Pour Marx, prêter à la puissance publique offre plus qu’un droit de regard sur le régime politique : cela constitue une façon de tenir l’État dans sa main.

No form of universal basic income can free us from capitalist exploitation, since only wage labor in the service of profit can generate the wealth that is distributed in the form of a UBI.

Marx’s life had been filled with such abundance that he was one of those people who found it natural to care for those around him.

il soutient le Marx qui célèbre l'homme total, réconcilié avec lui-même, capable de briller dans les tâches manuelles et d'exceller en même temps dans le registre intellectuel, celui qui fait l'éloge du loisir et de la création, des vraies richesses qu'il souhaite rendre accessibles à tous les travailleurs.

The challenge was how to ensure that capitalism served the people. Some supposed answers came from Europe and Russia. One was state ownership of monopolies and the largest enterprises—socialism, as it was called. A more radical one was found in communism—common ownership of all “means of production,” in Karl Marx’s words. A third was to turn large

When Otto von Bismarck pioneered state pensions and social security in late nineteenth-century Germany, his chief aim was to ensure the loyalty of the citizens rather than to increase their well-being.

One important new idea that emerged from Marx for our purposes is as follows: we saw work as an activity that was supposed to endow us with happiness and a sense of humanity. This was a strange new concept, and although it sprang up as a reaction against capitalism, there is no doubt that it is now part of the capitalist creed. How many of us talk

The End of Capitalism; the author, Ferdinand Fried, belonged to that well-known review, Die Tat, which has for a long time advocated a State capitalism, a managed and closed economy, with a dictatorship resting on the twin supports of the trade unions and the national-socialist movement.