title: Capital - A Critique of Political Economy: Volume 1-The Process of Capitalist Production
author: Karl Marx
description: Paperback w/ acceptable cover, vg text, Front is worn, creased, discolored, small closed tears, back is merely discolored. Published in 1967 by International Publishers Co., Inc. , eighth printing 1977. 807 pages. " The present Volume 1 of Capital is published on the occasion of the 100th Aniverversary of the first German Edition..Reproduced here is the unabridged text of Enlish edion of 1887, edited by Frederick Engels...and as corrected by the Progress Publishers, Moscow, in their edition of 1965."--from back cover and from copyright page. This copy , very neat &amp; moderate underlining generally throughout.
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  THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM  
    
  
  
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  # THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM
  
  
  ### Michael Bakunin
  
  
  
  
  
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  Is it necessary to repeat here the irrefutable arguments of Socialism which no
  bourgeois economist
  
  
  has yet succeeded in disproving? What is property, what is capital in their
  present form? For the
  
  
  capitalist and the property owner they mean the power and the right,
  guaranteed by the State, to live
  
  
  without working. And since neither property nor capital produces anything when
  not fertilized by labor -
  
  
  that means the power and the right to live by exploiting the work of someone
  else, the right to exploit the
  
  
  work of those who possess neither property nor capital and who thus are forced
  to sell their productive
  
  
  power to the lucky owners of both. Note that I have left out of account
  altogether the follow