Social Scientist

🇳🇴Thorstein Veblen

Economics

1857–1929

"In the modern industrial communities... the apparatus of living has grown so elaborate and cumbrous... that the consumers of these things cannot make way with them in the required manner without help."

🇩🇪Friedrich Engels

Philosophy

Marxism

1796–1860

"There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today."

"Primary work systems. These are the systems which carry out the set of' activities involved in an identifiable and bounded subsystem of a whole organization - such as a line department or a service unit..."

🇺🇸Silvia Federici

Philosophy

b. 1942

"The abstract categories of imperialism are neither exempt from the need of a foundation, nor will the fact that they are coextensive with ordinary discourse provide them with the needed foundation."

🇺🇸Judith Butler

Philosophy

Post-structuralism

b. 1956

"I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality. I was never against the category of men."

🇩🇪Niklas Luhmann

Philosophy

1927–1998

"Whatever we know about society, or indeed about the world in which we live, we know through the mass media. This is true not only of our knowledge of society but also of our knowledge of nature."