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“The real barrier of production is itself.” The passage comes from part three of the third volume of Capital, entitled “The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall”. The subsequent sentences have some bearing on the MR analysis: “Capital and its self-expansion appear as the starting and the closing point, the motive and the purpose of production; that production is only production for capital and not vice versa, the means of production are not mere means for a constant expansion of the living process of the society of producers”-, 1972, p250. [Joseph Choonara]

My inquiry led me to the conclusion that neither relations nor forms could be comprehended whether by themselves or on the basis of a so-called general development of the human mind, but that on the contrary they originate in the conditions of life, the totality of which Hegel, following the example of English and French thinkers of the eighteenth century, embraces within the term “civil society”; that the anatomy of this civil society, however, has to be sought in political economy. [Karl ] <a href="marxists.org/archive/marx/work">Karl , Economic Manuscripts: Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy</a>

, , and are part of a seamless journey rather than discrete episodes.

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«Όσο λιγότερο τρώτε, πίνετε και διαβάζετε βιβλία' όσο λιγότερο πηγαίνετε στο θέατρο, την αίθουσα χορού, το δημόσιο σπίτι. όσο λιγότερο σκέφτεστε, αγαπάτε, θεωρητικοποιείτε, τραγουδάτε, ζωγραφίζετε, περιφράζετε κ.λπ., τόσο περισσότερο εξοικονομείτε—τόσο μεγαλύτερος γίνεται ο θησαυρός σας που ούτε ο σκόρος ούτε η σκόνη θα καταβροχθίσουν—το κεφάλαιό σας. Όσο λιγότερο είστε, τόσο περισσότερα έχετε. Όσο λιγότερο εκφράζετε τη δική σας ζωή, τόσο μεγαλύτερη είναι η ζωή σας—τόσο μεγαλύτερη είναι το απόθεμα της ύπαρξής σας».

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"The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save—the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour—your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your life—the greater is the store of your being."

Karl , Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844

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