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Capital is dead labor that vampirelike lives only by sucking living labor and lives the more the more labor it suck.

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The introduction of free competition is thus public declaration that from now on the members of society are unequal only to the extent that their capi...more

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Capitalism: Teach a man to fish, but the fish he catches aren't his. They belong to the person paying him to fish, and if he's lucky, he might get pai...more

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Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth livi...more

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The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to ...more

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A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectified or materialized in it. How, then, is the magnit...more

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As exchange-values, all commodities are merely definite quantities of congealed labour-time.

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A use-value, or useful article, therefore, has value only because abstract human labour is objectified or materialized in it. How, then, is the magnit...more

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The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.

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And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose its conditions of existence upon ...more

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The sum of productive forces, capital funds and social forms of intercourse, which every individual and generation finds in existence as something giv...more

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Machinery which is not used is not capital.

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This false appearance distinguishes wages labour from other historical forms of labour. On the basis of the wages system even the unpaid labour seems ...more

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To say that "the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital", means only this: that the more speedily the worker augments the wealth of the...more