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Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.

— Kevin Bales

“frenzy in the early capitalist states of Europe for gold, for slaves, for products of the soil, to pay the bondholders and stockholders of…

— Howard Zinn

We know that enlightened capital didn't get rid of the slave trade.

— Anand Giridharadas

“To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the more speedily the worker augments…

— Karl Marx

The accumulation of capital involves the expansion of value over time.

— David Harvey

“The market was king, that much was clear. Share worth had replaced human worth. And it wasn’t so much a question of what that…

— Arne Dahl

It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they…

— William Cowper Brann

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

— Alfred Marshall

The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income…

— Henry George

“Capitalism distinguishes ‘capital’ from mere ‘wealth’.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become…

— Robert Kuttner

“When the rate of return on capital significantly exceeds the growth rate of the economy (as it did through much of history until the…

— Thomas Piketty