Togliatti wrote that workers “put a limit to the absolute freedom of the boss”; they subverted “the 'natural' conditions of the market”; and thus, their labor power ceased “to be a commodity that is subject to the iron 'laws' of supply and demand.” In other words, “men have rebelled against economics: [now] their conscience and wills count more than the 'scientifi c laws' of economics” (Togliatti 1919a, 72).

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 506