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Capitalists do not pay for the collective power of workers' combined labour
Drawn from what Pierre-Joseph Proudhon said
What Pierre-Joseph Proudhon actually said
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon French socialist and anarchist thinker (1809 to 1865)
To be accurate, it must be said that the capitalist has paid as many times one day's wage as he has employed laborers each day,—which is not at all the same thing. For he has paid nothing for that immense power which results from the union and harmony of laborers, and the convergence and simultaneousness of their efforts.
Where this was said
↗What is Property? (1840; Benjamin Tucker translation)gutenberg.org
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