
Letter to Maurice Thorez resigning from the French Communist Party, October 24, 1956
Source: Looking Backward, 2000-1887 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25439 (1888), Ch. 1.
Letter to Maurice Thorez resigning from the French Communist Party, October 24, 1956
Source: 1860s, First State of the Union address (1861)
Context: Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that there is, and probably always will be, a relation between labor and capital producing mutual benefits. The error is in assuming that the whole labor of community exists within that relation.
“Strife in industry is increasingly becoming a struggle between groups or classes.”
"The Commercial Motive" ibid.
2010s, 2016, November, New York Times Interview (November 23, 2016)
Introduction to Capital. Introduction to volume 1 (1976)
Source: Elements of Refusal (1988), pp. 108-109
(1847)