What is capital? First, it’s not money. Money can only perform money functions; buying and selling. But of course, there is a money circuit in the moments of capital circulation (it is only in the money form we can clearly aggregate between the original capital advanced and the surplus gained as measured in profit). The […]
Introduction The modern bourgeoisie may remark how Karl Marx was, at the least, an enduring and important thinker. It’s something of a contradiction then that throughout his adult life Marx condemned the same bourgeoisie to their certain doom. The bourgeoisie, it seems at a glance, are confessing that Marx spoke right. Here are 18 qoutes […]
[After the Civil War] the cities to which the soldiers returned were death traps of typhus, tuberculosis, hunger, and fire. In New York, 100,000 people lived in the cellars of the slums; 12,000 women worked in houses of prostitution to keep from starving; the garbage, lying 2 feet deep in the streets, was alive with […]
The Foundation of the capitalist industry was laid by means of the state of taking the property rights of individuals, in the exercise of its authority. This has taken its course by means of a revolution that has been just as bloody, as any, in history. The separation of the masses of people from the […]
