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Endnotes

Work Versus Labor

1 Source: Richest 1% Grab Nearly Twice as Much New Wealth as Rest of the World Put Together, 16 January 2023. Retrieved from: https://www.oxfam.org.uk/media/press-releases/richest-1-grab-nearly-twice-as-much-new-wealth-as-rest-of-the-world-put-together/#:~:text=The%20richest%201%25%20have%20pocketed,an%20Oxfam%20report%20reveals%20today.).

2 Retrieved from: http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/climate-change-2/

3 United Nations. “Global disparity in access to essential vaccines, says WHO report,” UN News, 9 November 2022. Retrieved from: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/11/1130402)

4 (Source: Freedom House. “NEW REPORT: Authoritarian Rule Challenging Democracy as Dominant Global Model, 24 February 2022, Press Release. Retrieved from: https://freedomhouse.org/article/new-report-authoritarian-rule-challenging-democracy-dominant-global-model

5 Source: Hambley, Ella. "COP27: Climate change threatening global health - report," BBC News, 26 October, 2020. Retrieved from: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63386814

6 Source: Beams, Nick. “The bailout of Silicon Valley Bank and the historic crisis of capitalism,” World Socialist Web Site, 14 March 2023. Retrieved from: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/03/14/fufo-m14.html There was also the failure of First Republic Bank, then purchased at rock bottom prices by JP Morgan at its stock value was reduced by 97 percent.

7 Krugman, Paul. “Thomas Piketty Turns Marx on His Head, The New York Times, 8 March 2020. Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/08/books/review/capital-and-ideology-thomas-piketty.html

8 Ibid

9 Source: Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-first Century, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014, p. 513.

10 Horbin, William. “He wrote the book on inequality. Now he has a guide to abolishing billionaires,” Los Angeles Times, 13 September 2019. Retrieved from: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-09-12/thomas-piketty-wealth-tax-billionaires-inequality

11 McCurry, Justin. “‘A new way of life’: the Marxist, post-capitalist, green manifesto captivating Japan,” The Guardian, 9 September 2022. Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/09/a-new-way-of-life-the-marxist-post-capitalist-green-manifesto-captivating-japan For other rcent books on Marx, see: Menand, Louis. “He’s Back: Karl Marx, yesterday and today,” The New Yorker, 10 October 2016; and, Gordon, Peter. “New Biography Focuses on Karl Instead of Marxism,” review of Gareth Stedman Jones, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (The Belknap Press/Harvard University, 2016), Book Review, The New York Times, 10 October 2016. Retrieved from:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/books/review/karl-marx-gareth-stedman-jones.html

12 Retrieved from: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/capital-and-ideology-by-thomas-piketty-review-how-to-make-society-fairer-8p9cfsglh)

13 This criticism similar to that brought against Rawls’ work, titled A Theory of Justice, which allowed for gains by powers that be if others in society also saw greater social mobility).

14 Marx, Karl. The German Ideology (New York: International Publishers, 1976).

15 Marx, Karl. Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964), introduction by Erich Fromm, 120.

16 Ibid.

17 Ibid, 121.

18 Ibid.

19 Ibid.

20 Ibid.

21 Marx, Karl. Das Kapital, Footnote 16, citing Engels: “The labour which creates use value, and counts qualitatively, is Work, as distinguished from Labour, that which creates Value and counts quantitatively, is Labour as distinguished from Work.”