Les nations pauvres, c’est là où le peuple est à son aise
 Karl Marx, Das Kapital (1867). copy citation

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Author Karl Marx
Source Das Kapital
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Date 1867
Language English
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Note Translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling
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“He wishes, on the contrary, to increase their wants and to make the increasing number of their wants a stimulus to their labour for the “more delicate.” 28 Storch, l. c., t. iii, p. 223. 29 Sismondi, l. c., pp. 79, 80, 85. 30 Destutt de Tracy, l. c., p. 231: “Les nations pauvres, c’est là où le peuple est à son aise; et les nations riches, c’est là où il est ordinairement pauvre.” [The poor nations are those where the people are comfortably off; and the rich nations, those where the people are generally poor]” source