Materialized labor is dead labor. Only living labor possesses the dual properties of labor, and involves the problem of abstract labor that creates value.

GE also bought shares in Siemens before war broke out, making them complicit in the use of slave labor to build the very same gas Chambers where many of the stricken laborers met their end.

They labored beneath the banner of the 115th Virginia Militia, a blue flag bearing a motto in golden letters: "give me liberty or give me death."