“The labour-power is a commodity, not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself.”

—  Karl Marx

Vol. II, Ch. XIX, p. 384.
(Buch II) (1893)

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