...social death does not end with prison. The condition is permanent, following people after they are released from prison...the mechanisms of social death, Price shows, are also informal and cultural.

Capital cannot tolerate any limitations to its own mode of social metabolic reproduction...not even when the devastating consequences are already glaringly obvious both in the field of production and on the terrain of the ecology. The only modality of time in which capital can be interested is exploitable labor time.

Marx and Engels's own theory of historical materialism was explicitly developed in opposition to Hegel's theory of history.