“The occupation was the latest in a series of actions prostitutes and supporters have taken to make the British Columbia government lift a recently imposed injunction against soliciting, and to decriminalize prostitution.”

In particular, Sismondi’s concept of capital, put forward in his 1819 book, New Principles of Political Economy, was a point of reference for Marx’s 1867 book, Capital Volume 1.

“Here at last the world of nature and things makes direct contact with the human being who is again in the fullest sense spontaneous and natural.”

“Against the miserabilists (i.e., those who defend the domination of misery), we maintain a ‘return to traditional values’: generalized class-warfare!”

Marx’s choice might not have been coincidence, given that Le Trosne’s last determinant of value was commodities themselves.

“Against the ‘alternative’ solutions proposed by the ecologists, we see the only way to approach the problem of ecological devastation is within the context of the subversion of all the relations and values on which the capitalist system is based.”