Itsurō Sakisaka Quotes

Itsurō Sakisaka was a Japanese Marxian economist. A professor of economics at Kyushu University, he is remembered as a leading theoretician of the Japan Socialist Party. Wikipedia

✵ 6. February 1897 – 22. January 1985

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Famous Itsurō Sakisaka Quotes

“Since the labor-power could be the labor of four, eight, or even twelve hours, the amount of labor expeneded can be augmented. The value of the labor-power is decided by the consumption goods necessary to maintain the life of the worker, making it possible for that person to exist as a human being who expends the same labor today as yesterday.”

Itsurō Sakisaka

Exploitation of Labor (1967)

“In the case of the exploitation of slave labor, by contrast, things are exceedingly clear. Slaves, who exist as a sort of animal owned by another human being, have no freedom. Like a dog, a slave is unable to exercise any degree of physical or mental freedom.”

Itsurō Sakisaka

Exploitation of Labor (1967)

“The idle lives of a minority ruling class can only be maintained by products, needless to say. So the only method to bring about this state of affairs is to appropriate, gratis, the fruits of labor of those who work by the sweat of their brow.”

Itsurō Sakisaka

Exploitation of Labor (1967)

“Once the means of production have become capital, a certain quantity of value is augmented through the exploitation of labor. And this valorizing value is capital.”

Itsurō Sakisaka

Exploitation of Labor (1967)

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