Who has the time to become politically active, or even politically aware, when one is struggling just to stay alive and feed one’s children?

Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called natural scarcities and on occasion, as Marx might put it, these barriers can be transformed into absolute contradictions and crises.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.