Ολόκληρο το σύστημα της καπιταλιστικής παραγωγής βασίζεται στο γεγονός ότι ο εργάτης πουλά την εργατική του δύναμη ως εμπόρευμα

«Ολόκληρο το σύστημα της καπιταλιστικής παραγωγής βασίζεται στο γεγονός ότι ο εργάτης πουλά την εργατική του δύναμη ως εμπόρευμα» (1867a: 430).

Ο Μαρξ το καθιστά αυτό σαφές σε πολλά σημεία. Βλ., μεταξύ άλλων: 1863a, σ. 45· 1863c, σσ. 471–472, 490–491· 1865a, σ. 879 κ.ε.· 1865b, ενότητα VII· 1867a, κεφ. VI· 1878, σσ. 119–120, 357, 389.

1863a, /Theories of Surplus Value (Capital, /vol. IV). Parts I—III.
b, c Moscow: Progress, 1963, 1968, 1971. Selections, ed. E. Burns,
London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1951. Extracts, MSW.

1865a /Capital, /vol. Ill (Ed. F. Engels). Moscow: Progress, 1971.
Extracts, MSW.

1865b /Wages, Price and Profit. /Peking: FLP, 1973. SW II, SW, and as
separate edn from Moscow: Progress. In EL under title /Value, Price and
Profit./

1867a /Capital, /vol. I. Ed. F. Engels, tr. S. Moore/E. Aveling from
third German edn, incorporating changes by Engels in fourth German edn,
London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1967. Part VIII of this edition is available
in SW II and separately from Moscow: Progress, under the title 'Genesis
of Capital'; MSW gives substantial extracts from the whole, also using
this translation.
Other English edns include: Chicago: Kerr, 1906 (tr. E. Untermann);
London, Allen & Unwin, 1970 (facsimile of first English edn of 1887,
with details of passages subsequently amended); London: Dent, 1974^(tr.
E. and C. Paul from 4th German edn); Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976 (tr.
F. Fowkes from MEW 23, which incorporates changes in all German edns and
the French edn of 1872-5). To note the different source edns here is
important: see my Appendix.

1878 /Capital, /vol. II (ed. F. Engels). Moscow: Progress, 1967. (The
bulk of this was drafted 1865-70; 1878 is the date of the last
MSS used by Engels. See my Appendix.)

[Derek Sayer - Marx's Method: Ideology Science and Critique in Capital (Humanities Press), 1979]