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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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still communists in their own view

[...] The majority would be justified in dissolving the London branch and expelling the minority as being in conflict with the principles of the League. I do not wish to put a motion to that effect as it would cause a pointless scandal and because these people are still communists in their own view…

—p.327 Karl Marx: Selected Writings Speech to the Central Committee of the Communist League (326) by Karl Marx
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the richer will be the crumbs that fall to him

To say that the worker has an interest in the rapid growth of capital is only to say that the more rapidly the worker increases the wealth of others, the richer will be the crumbs that fall to him, the greater is the number of workers that can be employed and called into existence, the more can the…

—p.287 Wage-Labour and Capital (273) by Karl Marx
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our desires and pleasures spring from society

A noticeable increase in wages presupposes a rapid growth of productive
capital. The rapid growth of productive capital brings about an equally rapid
growth of wealth, luxury, social wants, social enjoyments. Thus, although the
enjoyments of the worker have risen, the social satisfaction that th…

—p.284 Wage-Labour and Capital (273) by Karl Marx
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capital and wage labour

The indispensable condition for a tolerable situation of the worker is,
therefore, the fastest possible growth of productive capital.

But what is the growth of productive capital? Growth of the power of
accumulated labour over living labour. Growth of the domination of the bourgeoisie over the…

—p.284 Wage-Labour and Capital (273) by Karl Marx