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ALB
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Actually, the passages about profits and imposing work which the review was criticising are these:

 ‘… socially and politically speaking, profit making is merely the capitalist means to its social aim of controlling us by forcing us to work’ (p. 83)

‘Marx focussed on the dialectical character of the struggle within capitalism between those who impose work and those who resist’ (p. 72).

And the review never said he said that the capitalists weren’t interested in profits, only that he said that they were more interested in controlling workers and that making profits was a means towards this end.