Happy Birthday to Karl Marx

With special birthday gifts from Hugo Gellert

Karl Marx was born on this day in Trier Germany in 1818. I’m celebrating by bringing you selections from Hugo Gellert’s Karl Marx’ “Capital” in Lithographs from in 1932.

“The economic structure of capitalist society has grown out of the economic structure of feudal society. The dissolution of the latter set free the elements of the former.”
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Secret of Primitive Accumulation

“Free labourers, in the double sense that neither they themselves form part and parcel of the means of production, as in the case of slaves, bondsmen, &c., nor do the means of production belong to them, as in the case of peasant-proprietors; they are, therefore, free from, unencumbered by, any means of production of their own.”
Chapter Twenty Six: The Secret of Primitive Accumulation

Primary Accumulation: Origin of the industrial capitalist

“20 yards of linen = 1 coat”
Chapter One: The Commodity

“Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. The time during which the labourer works, is the time during which the capitalist consumes the labour-power he has purchased of him.”
Chapter Ten: The Working Day

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