“Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.”
Vol. I, Ch. 15, Section 8, pg. 520.
(Buch I) (1867)
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Lakshmidhar Mishra in: Human Bondage: Tracing Its Roots in India http://books.google.co.in/books?id=WNuGAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA425, SAGE Publications India, 12 July 2011, p. 425
From his book On the “Labour Problems in Indian Industry”
The Personality of Jesus (1932)
Context: The victims of greed and exploitation will never get justice solely by relying upon the vision and generosity of those who hold power and seek their own gain. Power is blinding and corrupting and causes the slave-owner to imagine that it is his duty to perpetuate slavery. The victims of imperialism, in a world where national egotism and greed are rampant, must resort to coercive action if they are to secure freedom and justice.
“The cheapness family is the most powerful of the five.”
Source: The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why (1999), Chapter 10, The Positive Payoffs to Cheapness and Profitability, p. 105
“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Letter to Lord Holland (9 January 1804), quoted in L. G. Mitchell, Charles James Fox (London: Penguin, 1997), p. 194.
1800s
“All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.”
Source: All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts
The King v. Justices of Devon (1819), 1 Chit. Rep. 37.
The Amazing Mr. Lutterworth (1958)
Four Speeches on the Corporate State, Rome, (1935) pp. 39-40. Speech delivered to the workers in Milan. Eric Jabbari, Pierre Laroque and the Welfare State in Postwar France, Oxford University Press, (2012) p. 46
Context: Fascism establishes the real equality of individuals before the nation… the object of the regime in the economic field is to ensure higher social justice for the whole of the Italian people… What does social justice mean? It means work guaranteed, fair wages, decent homes, it means the possibility of continuous evolution and improvement. Nor is this enough. It means that the workers must enter more and more intimately into the productive process and share its necessary discipline… As the past century was the century of capitalist power, the twentieth century is the century of power and glory of labour.