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In capitalist society however where social reason always asserts itself only post festum great disturbances may and must constantly occur.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
For capitalism is abolished root and branch by the bare assumption that it is personal consumption and not enrichment that works as the compelling motive.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
The entire process seems simple and natural, i.e., possesses the naturalness of a shallow rationalism.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
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)
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)
Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
On the other hand one must not entertain any fantastic illusions on the productive power of the credit system, so far as it supplies or sets in motion money-capital.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
In a constantly revolving circle every point is simultaneously a point of departure and a point of return. If we interrupt the rotation, not every point of departure is a point of return.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
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.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
What strikes one here above all is the crudely empirical conception of profit derived from the outlook of the ordinary capitalist, which wholly contradicts the better esoteric understanding of Adam Smith.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
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.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
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.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
The labour-power is a commodity, not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)
Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not.
Das Kapital (Buch II) (1893)