…You could count the number of people in the city as a starting point. …Of course, not every individual needs a turkey, so the number of households might be more helpful. But not every household needs a turkey, either. …You could send out a survey ahead of time to ask people what...
The economic terms used in this work,as afar as they are new,agree with those used in the English edition of Marx's Capital.We call "production of commodities"that economic phase where articles are produced not only for the use of the producers,but also for the purpose of exchange;that ...
[PC] It has to be done in terms of physical or realized productivity of individual people. Some people can just work faster than others. However, this is not a property of a trade or profession. It’s not that some trades or professions are higher grade than others, it’s a difference...
In this movement many a labor leader learnt habits of business and of successful committee work that enabled him later on to deal on equal, or even on advantageous, terms with the representatives of the owning classes. But during all this period of training the Socialist movement proper lay ...
Later there is always the new antithesis that, couched in terms of “equal protection under the law” and “non-discrimination,” must, “constitutionally” be applied to still more segments until there’s a permanent acceptance of that much socialism by the very conservatives who believe they ...
both measured in terms of real value. Insofar as the labor contract is “free,” what the worker receives is determined not by the real value of the goods he produces, but by his minimum needs and by the capitalists’ requirements for labor power in relation to the number of workers compe...
the private capital production relationship constrains the development of productivity and shows itself in the form of crisisAs the saying goes, it is to lose weight by eating Croton.Thus, in terms of ideology, there appeared various socialist theories, such as Irving, Fourier, marnles, Bernstein...
Because it is customary to think in terms of nation-states, it is easy to slip into the anachronsim of saying that in the eighteenth century Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were incorporated into the Russian Empire. In fact, in the eighteenth century neither an 'Estonia' nor a 'Latvia' ...
In 1982, a German female laborer working alongside Mozambicans discussed the relationship between a German and a Mozambican co-worker in terms of stereotypical depictions of African virility: “I don’t know why Angela is attracted to a Mozambican. Some men say they have especially big genitals...
They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid. I can quite understand a man accepting laws that protect private property, and admit of its accumulation, as long as he himself is able under those conditions...