“Capitalism will inevitably find itself face to face with a starving multitude of unemployed workers demanding food or destruction of the social order that has starved them and robbed them of their jobs.”

— Helen Keller

What is the IWW? (1918)
Source: [What is the IWW?, Helen, Keller, https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/keller-helen/works/1910s/18_01_x01.htm, 1918, January, December 27 2016]

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American author and political activist 1880–1968

Lynsay Sands Canadian writer

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“Is the Farmageddon scenario – the death of our countryside, a scourge of disease and billions starving – inevitable?”

Philip Lymbery book Farmageddon

Farmageddon (2014)

“…. it is of the very essence of Christianity to face suffering and death not because they are good, not because they have meaning, but because the resurrection of Jesus has robbed them of their meaning.”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

“Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to look at the sociological literature on poverty, a more complex picture emerges. Poverty and unemployment are part and parcel of our economic order. Without them, capitalism would cease to function effectively, and in order to continue to function, the system itself must produce poverty and an army of underemployed or unemployed people.”

Bob Torres American podcaster

Source: Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights (2007), p. 7

“If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“The reason why people starve is because of poverty … not because of a shortage of food … but because the only way to access the food is through the market”

Raj Patel (1972) British academic

About global food economy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU5zT1r5Fk8 Marquette University
Context: When you introduce markets in food, then you introduce two very simple rules. The first rule is this: if you have money you can get the food from wherever around the world. The other rule markets impose is this: if you do not have money, you will starve. This is an important point … The reason why people starve is because of poverty … not because of a shortage of food … but because the only way to access the food is through the market.