The most barbarous fact in all christendom is the labor market. The mere term sufficiently expresses the animalism of commercial civilization. They who buy and they who sell in the labor market are alike dehumanized by the inhuman traffic in the brains and blood and bones of human beings.
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It ignores that markets can sometimes protect workers through competition.
There has never been a free people, a civilized nation, a real republic on this earth. Human society has always consisted of masters and slaves, and the slaves…
The very moment a workingman begins to do his own thinking he understands the paramount issue, parts company with the capitalist politician and falls in line w…
For myself, I want no advantage over my fellow man, and if he is weaker than I, all the more is it my duty to help him.
a salesman is an it that stinks [part of a title of one of his poems, published in 1944)
Business - the world's work - is the sale of lies: Not goods, but trade-marks; and still more and more In every branch becomes the sale of money.
I rarely saw them as individuals. It was always a huge mass...they were naked, packed together, running, being driven with whips.