David Harvey - Labour Quotes

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The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

David Harvey

The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

David Harvey

Not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use. For this is the only means that capitalism has at its disposal to achieve the level of devaluation now required. The idea is dreadful in its implications. What better reason could there be to declare that it is time for capitalism to be gone, to give way to some saner mode of production?

David Harvey

Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.

David Harvey

The dominant notion of rationality is a capitalist notion of rationality, that is, whatever is profitable, whatever can be organised in terms of social control of labour-power and control of natural resources.

David Harvey

Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.

David Harvey