“ While the rich have been growing richer, the poor have been growing less poor. ”
Karl Marx, Das Kapital (1867). copy citation
| Author | Karl Marx |
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| Source | Das Kapital |
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| Date | 1867 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling |
| Weblink | https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-... |
Context
“this intoxicating augmentation of wealth and power ... entirely confined to classes of property ... must be of indirect benefit to the labouring population, because it cheapens the commodities of general consumption. While the rich have been growing richer, the poor have been growing less poor. At any rate, whether the extremes of poverty are less, I do not presume to say.”40
How lame an anti-climax! If the working class has remained “poor,” only “less poor” in proportion as it produces for the wealthy class”
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