Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its… — Herbert I. Schiller
Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation, that constitutes the essence of inequality and ineradicable instability: the wage-labor-capital connection that dwells at the heart of the system.
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