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Quotation from Capital, Volume I by Karl Marx
“it is the ultimate aim of this work, to lay bare the economic law of motion of modern society”
Capital, Volume I, Author's Prefaces, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887), ed. Frederick Engels; rev. Ernest Untermann (Kerr, 1906)
From the preface to the first German edition (1867), where Marx states the purpose of the whole work and compares economic laws to natural laws that a nation can shorten but not skip.
Citation: "it is the ultimate aim of this work, to lay bare the economic law of motion of modern society" — Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, Author's Prefaces, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887), ed. Frederick Engels; rev. Ernest Untermann (Kerr, 1906). (id marx-capital-volume-i-q1)
