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Karl Marx Quotes: Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
         

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.


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