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Quotation from Karl Marx and the Close of His System by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
“He acts as one who urgently desiring to bring a white ball out of an urn takes care to secure this result by putting in white balls only”
Karl Marx and the Close of His System, Chapter IV: The Error in the Marxian System, Its Origin and Ramifications, trans. Alice M. Macdonald (1898)
From Chapter IV: Böhm-Bawerk's image for how Marx finds labour as the common factor of exchange value, by limiting his search from the start to products of labour and leaving out gifts of nature such as land.
Citation: "He acts as one who urgently desiring to bring a white ball out of an urn takes care to secure this result by putting in white balls only" — Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, Karl Marx and the Close of His System, Chapter IV: The Error in the Marxian System, Its Origin and Ramifications, trans. Alice M. Macdonald (1898). (id bohm-bawerk-karl-marx-and-the-close-of-his-system-q6)
