“ What the working man sells is not directly his labour, but his labouring power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. this is so much the case that I do not know whether by… Karl Marx
“ The values of commodities are directly as the times of labour employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labour employed. Karl Marx
“ Take the example of our spinner. We have seen that, to daily reproduce his labouring power, he must daily reproduce a value of three shillings, which he will do by working six hours daily. But this do… Karl Marx
“ By buying the power of the workman, the capitalist has, therefore, acquired the right to use of make that labouring power during the whole day or week. Karl Marx
“ The cry for an equality of wages rests, therefore, upon a mistake is an inane wish never to be fulfilled. It is an offspring of that false and superficial radicalism that accepts premises and tries to… Karl Marx
“ This false appearance distinguishes wages labour from other historical forms of labour. On the basis of the wages system even the unpaid labour seems to be paid labour. With the slave, on the contrary… Karl Marx
