“What if capital had had to pay for free reproductive work, for ecological repair and replenishment, for wealth expropriated…
“What if capital had had to pay for free reproductive work, for ecological repair and replenishment, for wealth expropriated from racialized people, for public goods? How much surplus would it have really produced? That’s a rhetorical question, of course. I wouldn’t know how even to begin constructing an answer. But I am sure that a socialist society would inherit a hefty bill for centuries of unpaid costs.”— Nancy Fraser, What Should Socialism Mean in the 21st Century?