"The production of too many useful things..." - Quote by Karl Marx
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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“In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.”
“When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.”
“The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere. The bourgeoisie has, through its exploitation of the world market, given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of reactionaries, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood.”
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“One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.”
“Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result from the transformation of matter in form, location, or availability (intellectually or temporally). It is these transformations that create economic benefits valued by consumers, and whoever arranges such transformations contributes to the value of things, whether his hands actually come into contact with physical objects or not.”
“What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?”
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“Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.”
“The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.”
“We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.”