“While a person dies every day during the eight or more hours in which he or she functions as a commodity, individuals come to life afterward in their spiritual creations.”

—  Ernesto Che Guevara

Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Context: While a person dies every day during the eight or more hours in which he or she functions as a commodity, individuals come to life afterward in their spiritual creations. But this remedy bears the germs of the same sickness: that of a solitary being seeking harmony with the world.

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Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928–1967

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