Wage-labour does not create any property for the labourer but creates capital, a kind of property that exploits wage-labour
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If it is true that...
Communism aims at abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of one's own labour 1 0 2and
Wage-labour does not create any property for the labourer but creates capital, a kind of property that exploits wage-labour 1 0 2and
Capital is a collective product and a social power 1 0 2and
The average price of wage-labour is the minimum wage that suffices to prolong and reproduce bare existence 1 0 2Then it must be true that...
In bourgeois society, living labour is a means to increase accumulated labour while in communist society, accumulated labour is a means to promote existence of the labourer 1 0 2Mentions
Karl Marx/The Communist Manifesto
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