We live today in a world in which oligopolies (a few giant corporations which control the majority of the market) raise prices in good times and bad, prefer large per-item profits on a low volume of sales to smaller unit profits on many more sales, and shift the social costs of pollution, ecological disaster, poverty, unemployment, aging, and disability to everyone else—anyone else—in the name of "liberty."
This isn't liberty. It's piracy. Private piracy.
The liberty of the marketplace is, and historically has been, an excuse for the worst kind of vampirism. Despite the enormous inequities between men sanctioned by this version of "liberty," the inequities between men and women are worse: globally, women do two-thirds of the world's work and receive 10 percent of the world's pay.
—Joanna Russ, letter to The Women's Review of Books, March 1986. Collected in The Country You Have Never Seen.
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