“Every one knows that there are no real forests in England. The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman.”

—  Karl Marx, book Das Kapital

Vol. I, Ch. 27, pg. 803.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)

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