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“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

“Darwin has interested us in the history of Nature’s Technology, i.e., in the formation of the organs of plants and animals, which organs serve as instruments of production for sustaining life.” Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“Constant revolution in production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation, distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones.” Karl Marx, Das Kapital

“Speculation in things already produced—that is not business.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.” Karl Marx, Das Kapital

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Das Kapital (3)
My Life and Work (1)
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