Tag: totalitarianism

  • Imperialism as a Response to Surpluses and Superfluousness

    Imperialism as a Response to Surpluses and Superfluousness

    “Older than the superfluous wealth was another by-product of capitalist production: the human debris of every crisis, following invariably upon each period of industrial growth, eliminated permanently from producing society. Men who had become permanently idle were as superfluous to the community as the owners of superfluous wealth.