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Quotation from Capital, Volume I by Karl Marx
“Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!”
Capital, Volume I, Chapter XXIV: Conversion of surplus-value into capital, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887), ed. Frederick Engels; rev. Ernest Untermann (Kerr, 1906)
From Chapter XXIV, where Marx describes the drive to reinvest surplus-value as the overriding command of capitalist production, in mock-biblical language.
Citation: "Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!" — Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter XXIV: Conversion of surplus-value into capital, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887), ed. Frederick Engels; rev. Ernest Untermann (Kerr, 1906). (id marx-capital-volume-i-q5)
