Zini critiqued the abstract, indirect concept of political freedom: in short, he said that political freedom is impossible in the presence of "economic unfreedom," the state of market dependence in which the majority of people are forced to sell their labor power in order to survive. Th e theories from bourgeois economists oft en concealed such forms of economic coercion, but these were nonetheless felt by workers: "Today all men, if they want to live, if they don't want to die of hunger and of cold, are obliged .

Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, loc. 533