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Every one knows that there are no real forests in England. The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman. (Karl Marx)
These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time. View quote
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As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone. View quote
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Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant. View quote
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As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either. View quote
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It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it. View quote
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Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets! View quote
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The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature. View quote
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An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital. View quote
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No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need. View quote
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The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material. (Karl Marx)
Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same. View quote
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The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it. View quote
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A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children. View quote
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One capitalist always kills many. View quote
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Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth, it buys as long as it has the means to buy. View quote
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There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities. View quote
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Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity. View quote
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The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent. View quote
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It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis. View quote
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Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is. (Karl Marx)
But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything. View quote
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Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money. View quote
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If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction. View quote
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Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed. View quote
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