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You are here : Political Context » Editorial » Quote of the Day: What is “natural?”

Quote of the Day: What is “natural?”

Posted On Sunday, June 24, 2012 By Editor. Under Editorial    

Production might be natural. Obviously consumption is natural. Trading goods, working for a payoff, and some forms of competition might be natural. But none of that means capitalism is natural. Here’s today’s quote:

Nature does not produce on the one side owners of money or commodities, and on the other men possessing nothing but their own labour-power. This relation has no natural basis, neither is its social basis one that is common to all historical periods. It is clearly the result of a past historical development, the product of many economic revolutions, of the extinction of a whole series of older forms of social production.
–Karl Marx, Capital

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