“In capitalist society individuals are controlled by a pitiless law usually beyond their comprehension. The alienated human specimen is tied to society as a whole by an invisible umbilical cord: the law of value. This law acts upon all aspects of one's life, shaping its course and destiny.”

Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)

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Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928–1967

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