“In a social order dominated by capitalist production even the non-capitalist producer is gripped by capitalist conceptions.”

—  Karl Marx, book Das Kapital

Vol. III, Ch. I, Cost Price and Profit, p. 39.
Das Kapital (Buch III) (1894)

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