“ On the level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the imbecile flatness of the present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects. ”
 Karl Marx, Das Kapital (1867). copy citation

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“In reality, the labourer advances his labour gratuitously to the capitalist during, say one week, in order to receive the market price at the end of the week, &c., and it is this which, according to Mill, transforms him into a capitalist. On the level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the imbecile flatness of the present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Chapter 17: Changes of Magnitude in the Price of Labour-Power and in Surplus-Value The value of labour-power is determined by the value of the necessaries of life habitually required by the average labourer.” source

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