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"the profit made in selling depends on cheating, deceit, inside knowledge, skill and a thousand favorable market opportunities;"
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"The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the foremost minds of a ruled class, the more stable and dangerous becomes its rule."
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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