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“The instrument suffers the same fate as the man. Every day brings a man [24] hours nearer to his grave, although no one can tell accurately, merely by looking at a man, how many days he has still to travel on that road. This difficulty, however, does not prevent life insurance companies from using the theory of averages to draw very accurate […], very profitable conclusions about the length of a man's life.”
— Dec 07, 2025 10:12AM
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Ross
is on page 303 of 1152
“By turning his money into commodities which serve as the building materials for a new product, and as factors in the labour process, […] the capitalist simultaneously transforms value, i.e. past labour in its objectified and lifeless form, into capital, value which can perform its own valorization process, an animated monster which begins to 'work' as if its ‘body were by love possessed'.”
— Dec 06, 2025 08:05AM
Ross
is on page 283 of 1152
“He who was previously the money-owner now strides out in front as a capitalist; the possessor of labour-power follows as his worker.
The one smirks self-importantly and is intent on business; the other is timid and holds back, like someone who has brought his own hide to market and now has nothing else to expect but - a tanning.”
— Dec 04, 2025 06:58PM
The one smirks self-importantly and is intent on business; the other is timid and holds back, like someone who has brought his own hide to market and now has nothing else to expect but - a tanning.”
Ross
is on page 235 of 1152
Chapter 3 is soooo boring until you get to the section on Hoarding and then it’s just Marx going sicko mode with the literary allusions and bomb lines.
— Nov 29, 2025 08:32PM
