The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. – Karl Marx
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. – Karl Marx
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. – Karl Marx
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. – Karl Marx
Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents. – Karl Marx
As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. – Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979