Quotes About Exploitation

We assume that we can have an exploitive, ruthlessly competitive, profit-for-profit's-sake economy, and yet remain a decent and a democratic nation, as we still apparently wish to think ourselves. This simply means that our highest principles and standards have no practical force or influence and are reduced merely to talk.

The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

but now and then liberty, in the slogans of the strong, means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.

Free trade and Christianity, it's the German East Africa Company, it's French Equatorial Africa, it's the Belgians cutting down the Congo population from twenty million to ten in barely twenty years, by nineteen fourteen there's nothing left to plunder in Africa so they go to war with each other in Europe instead that's what the whole damned first world war was all ab...

Jobbery is the vice of plutocracy, and

Good people get cheated, just as good horses get ridden.

Humanity increased its degree of control over nature, but at the price of most people becoming subject to control and exploitation by privileged minority groups.

Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.

The seedy single-room-occupancy hotels and low-rent apartment buildings in that neighborhood were like vending machines filled with victims.

Marx - L'ouvrier est ainsi triplement aliéné : - Par rapport à lui-même (il a vendu sa force de travail au capitaliste) ; - Par rapport à la marchandise (le produit de son travail appartient à un autre, le capitaliste) ; - Par rapport au capitaliste lui-même (le salariat est une forme substitutive de l'esclavage dans laquelle les individus ne sont pas juridiquement la propriété des maîtres).

Ce n'est pas parce que le capitalisme achète et exploite la force de travail du mari qu'il exploite du même coup la femme. C'est absolument faux. Elle est exploitée par son rapport de production [l'exploitation domestique], c'est évident, pas par celui de son mari.

En prétendant que le mariage peut se substituer aux rapports de production dans le système capitaliste comme critère d'appartenance de classe dans ce système, on masque et l'existence d'un autre système de production, et le fait que les rapports de production dans ce système constituent précisément maris et femmes en classes antagoniques (les uns retirant un profit matériel de l'exploitation des autres).

Le] couple mère-enfant ne désigne pas une association d'individus mais essentiellement un système de rôles et d'obligations : une formation sociale. De surcroît cette formation sociale est le résultat empirique - en termes d'associations d'individus physiques - d'une structure d'exploitation : le système politique patriarcal.

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

It is no wonder that so many children preferred life on the streets, for street children forced into petty theft and prostitution were also a singular phenomenon of 1940s Spain

Reading myth as crystallizing historical fact was a common approach in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But it is an approach to myth that is fraught with problems. It ignores or takes insufficient account of how mythic narratives are exploited for political purposes.

The domination–exploitation of human beings begins with animals, wild beasts and cattle; the humans associated with these inaugurated an experience that would turn back against them: killings, stockbreeding, slaughters, sacrifices and (in order better to submit) castration.

we have not abolished slavery; we have only abolished one rude form of it, chattel slavery. There is a deeper and a more insidious form, a more cursed form yet before us to abolish, in this industrial slavery that makes a man a virtual slave, while taunting him and mocking him with the name of freedom

what do they want with our land? They do not want it at all; it is not the land they want; they have no use for American land. What they want is the income that they know they can in a little while get from it. Where does that income come from? It comes from labour, from the labour of American citizens. What we are selling to these people is our children, not land.

There is no difficulty in discovering what makes those people poor. They have no right to anything that nature gives them. All they can make above a living they must pay to the landlord. They not only have to pay for the land that they use, but they have to pay for the seaweed that comes ashore and for the turf they dig from the bogs. They dare not improve, for any improvements they make are made an excuse for putting up the rent.

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

In the West Indies and South America, slaves were worked to death and replaced with fresh imports, but in the continental North American colonies of Great Britain the situation was the opposite. By about 1710, as Morgan notes, "Virginia's slave population began to grow from natural increase, an unprecedented event for any New World slave population.…In 1700 Virginia had 13,000 slaves; in 1730, 40,000; in 1750, 105,000, of whom nearly 80 percent were Virginia born.

Luxury cannot be obtained other than by enslaving other people.