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"the profit made in selling depends on cheating, deceit, inside knowledge, skill and a thousand favorable market opportunities;"
Capital, Volume IIIThe capitalist does not produce a commodity for its own sake, nor for — Capital, Volume III
"The capitalist does not produce a commodity for its own sake, nor for the sake of its use value, or his personal consumption. The product in which the capitalist is really interested is not the palpable product itself, but the excess value of the product over the value of the capital consumed by it."
Capital, Volume III
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, also known as Das Kapital, is a foundational theoretical text in Marxist philosophy, economics, and politics by Karl Marx. His magnum opus, the work is a critical analysis of political economy, meant to reveal the economic patterns underpinning the capitalist mode of production. Das Kapital is in three volumes, of which only the first was published in Marx
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