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Money must exist before it can be turned into capital.

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Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital.

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Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.

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Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.

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The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time.

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The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war.

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The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.

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Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.

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The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

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All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.

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But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.

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Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.

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When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.

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Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

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There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

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The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.

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If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, than capitalism is not long for this world.

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The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.

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Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

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Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.

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Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.

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Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

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The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

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The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.

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Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

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