"As capital was accumulated, the creative, emotional, aesthetic and intellectual potential of workers would be systematically thwarted...

"When capital inflicts psychic regression on the worker, the result is either 'apathy or destructiveness.' Marx believed that the result would ultimately be destructiveness - the worker would destroy the capitalist system. But this destructiveness would, he believed, also constitute an historic act of creativity. From the shell of the old exploitive system, workers would create a new socialist system in which cooperation, planning, and human development would take the place of competition... exploitation, and alienation.

"Workers have arisen in struggle after struggle with capitalists... since Marx wrote Capital. But such struggles have generally been confined to local areas and have usually been brutally repressed...

"The success of capitalism... reflects a development that Marx did not foresee: the brutal repression of workers' struggles had the effect of channeling their misery and alienation into the nonviolent forms of apathy, despair, emotional malaise, anxiety, isolation, and loneliness." (245) Economist E.K. Hunt