Teorías sobre la plusvalía (Tomo IV de El Capital) vol. III by Karl Marx

fifths part of the people are […] employed in the cultivation of the land…» ( ibidem , pp. 45-46)
    234. «… so true it is that society turns every improvement but to the increase of idleness.» ( ibidem , p. 48)
    234. «… the history of the last thirty years [106] […] has achieved no higher adventure than the turning a few Jews into gentlemen, and a few blockheads into political economists.» ( ibidem , pp. 66-67)
    234. «… to rob or [107] a large portion of their property of the ancient gentry of the land, […] to transfer it to these new fangled hidalgos as a reward for their skill in the arts of fraud and peculation… If it encourage fraud and meannes; if it clothe quackery and pretension in the garb of wisdom; if it turn a whole people in a nation of jobbers… if it break down all the prejudices of rank and birth zu render money the only distinction among men… it destroys the perpetuity of property…» ( ibidem , pp. 51-52)
    237. «… wealth […] is disposable time, and nothing more. [108] » («The Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties…», Londres, 1821, p. 6)
    237. «… productive capital and skilled labour are […] one…» ([ Thomas Hodgskin ] «Labour defended against the Claims of Capital…», Londres, 1825, p. 33)
    237. «… capital and a labouring population are precisely synonymous.» ( ibidem , p. 33)
    237. «… è vera ricchezza… l’uomo…» ( Galiani «Della Moneta» in: Scrittori Classici Italiani di Economía Política. Parte moderna. Tomo III, Milán, 1803, p. 229)
    238. «… of this […] incredible cobbler» ( Mordecai Mullion «Some Illustration of Mr. M’Culloch’s Principles of Political Economy», Edimburgo, 1826, p. 31)
    238. «… capital is a sort of cabbalistic word , like church or state, or any other of those general terms which are invented by those who fleece the rest of mankind to conceal the hand that shears them.» ([ Thomas Hodgskin ] «Labour defended against the Claims of Capital…», Londres, 1825, p. 17)
    238. «… the effects attributed to a stock of commodities , under the name of circulating capital, are caused by coexisting labour .» ( ibidem , pp. 8-9)
    245. «… the effects attributed to a stock of commodities , under the name circulating capital, are caused by coexisting labour.» ( ibidem , pp. 8-9)
    246. «Do all the capitalists of Europe possess at this moment one week’s food and clothing for all the labourers they employ? Let us first examine the question as to food. One portion of the food of the people is bread , which is never prepared till within a few hours of the time when it is eaten… The produce […] of the baker, cannot be stored up. In no case can the material or bread, whether it exist as corn or flour, be preserved without continual labour . [… ] His conviction, [109] that he will obtain bread when he requires it, and his master’s conviction that the money he pays him will enable him to obtain it, arise simply from the fact that the bread has always been obtained when required.» ( ibidem , página 10)
    246. «Another article of the labourer’s food is milk, and milk is manufactured… twice a day. If it be said that the cattle to supply it are already there; — why the answer is, they require constant attention and constant labour, and their food, through the greater part of the year, is of daily growth . The fields in which they pasture, require the hand of man. […] The meat, also […], it cannot be stored up, for it begins instantly do deteriorate after it is brought to market.» ( ibidem , p. 10)
    246. «… only a very small stock is ever prepared , compared to the general consumption.» ( ibidem , p. 11)
    246. «Mr. Mill says, and says justly, “what is annually produced is annually consumed”, [516] so that, in fact, to enable men to carry on all those operations which extend beyond a year , there cannot be any stock of commodities stored up . Those who undertake them must rely, therefore, not