Karl Marx quote: But capital not only lives upon labour. Like a master, at once distinguished and barbarous, it drags with it into ...

But capital not only lives upon labour. Like a master, at once distinguished and barbarous, it drags with it into its grave the corpses of its slaves, whole hecatombs of workers, who perish in the crises.

~ Karl Marx ~

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