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Quotation from Capital, Volume I by Karl Marx
“wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as "an immense accumulation of commodities,"”
Capital, Volume I, Chapter I: Commodities, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887), ed. Frederick Engels; rev. Ernest Untermann (Kerr, 1906)
The opening sentence of Chapter I, which explains why the analysis begins with the commodity; Marx quotes his own earlier Critique of Political Economy (1859).
Citation: "wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as "an immense accumulation of commodities,"" — Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter I: Commodities, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887), ed. Frederick Engels; rev. Ernest Untermann (Kerr, 1906). (id marx-capital-volume-i-q2)
