“ The commodity-capital acts neither as a creator of products nor as a creator of value. ”
Karl Marx, Das Kapital (1885). copy citation
| Author | Karl Marx |
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| Source | Das Kapital |
| Topic | value commodity |
| Date | 1885 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-... |
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“to transform itself into money, to be sold, to go through the circulation stage C — M. So long as the capital, now expanded, remains in the form of commodity-capital, lies immovable in the market, the process of production is at rest. The commodity-capital acts neither as a creator of products nor as a creator of value. A given capital-value will serve, in widely different degrees, as a creator of products and value, and the scale of reproduction will be extended or reduced commensurate with the particular speed with which that capital throws off its commodity-form and assumes that of money, or with the rapidity of the sale.”
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