Common people Quote by Karl Polanyi

“Every historical form of society is in its foundation a form of organization of labor. While every previous form of society was an organization…

— Leon Trotsky

“It is not enough that the conditions of labour are concentrated at one pole of society in the shape of capital, while at the…

— Karl Marx

“To organize society in such a manner that every individual, man or woman, should find, upon entering life, approximately equal means for the development…

— Mikhail Bakunin

It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize.

— Theodore Roosevelt

What makes the existence and the evolution of society possible is precisely the fact that peaceful cooperation under the social division of labor in…

— Ludwig von Mises

“The real determinant of society is hidden behind the state and the economy: it is the way in which our everyday activity is organised,…

— John Holloway

“The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end to predominate, is not that which can…

— John Stuart Mill

“In nineteenth century Europe (and later in other parts of the world) the transition from a subsistence to a market economy based on the…

— Eleanor Burke Leacock

“The economic structure of capitalist society has grown out of the economic structure of feudal society. The dissolution of the latter set free the…

— Karl marx

The organized labor movement as it is constituted today is as much a concomitant of a capitalist economy as is capital. Organized labor is…

— Saul Alinsky

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

— James Mackintosh

Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual and society.…

— Ludwig von Mises