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A house sold by A to B does not wander from one place to another, although it circulates as a commodity.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.
Money is the alienated essence of man’s work and existence, this essence dominates him and he worships it.
Marx-Engels Reader (1978)
Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
The process is so complicated that it offers ever so many occasions for running abnormally.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating."
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.
Grundrisse (1857)
In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.
Grundrisse (1857)
Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed.
Grundrisse (1857)
The law of gravity thus asserts itself when a house falls about our ears.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production.
The German Ideology (1846)
The tool, as we have seen, is not exterminated by the machine.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
To discover the various use of things is the work of history.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity.
Grundrisse (1857)