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The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his act...more

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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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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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What exclusively determines the magnitude of the value of any article is therefore the amount of labour socially necessary, or the labour-time sociall...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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In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesi...more

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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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In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

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Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor ...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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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

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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,...more