The use-value which the former gets in exchange manifests itself only in the actual usufruct, in the consumption of the labour power.
former = purchaser of labour power
[...] The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcized Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.
[...] Use-values must therefore never be looked upon as the real aim of the capitalist; neither must the profit on any single transaction. The restless never-ending process of profit-making alone is what he aims at. This boundless greed after riches, this passionate chase after exchange-value, is c…
Trading nations, properly so called, exist in the ancient world only in its interstices
Hence, when we bring the products of our labour into relation with each other as values, it is not because we see in these articles the material receptacles of homogeneous human labour. Quite the contrary: whenever, by an exchange, we equate as values our different products, by that very act, we al…
