“Global poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.”

Source: The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order - Second Edition - (2003), Chapter 5, The Global Cheap-Labor Economy, p. 69 (See also: Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Marx)

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