...wheels of the Juggernaut of Capital. But all methods for the production of surplus value are at the same time methods of accumulation ; and every extension...accumulation becomes again a means for the development of these methods. It follows therefore that in proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer,...

...wheels of the Juggernaut of capital. But all methods for the production of surplus value are at the eame time methods of accumulation; and every extension...proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the labourer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse. The law, finally, that always equilibrates the...

...wheels of the Juggernaut of Capital. But all methods for the production of surplus value are at the same time methods of accumulation ; and every extension...accumulation becomes again a means for the development of these methods. It follows therefore that in proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer,...

...but they must grow continually worse. For "all methods for the production of surplus value are at the same time methods of accumulation; and every extension...law, finally, that always equilibrates the relative surplus population or industrial reserve army, to the extent and energy of accumulation, this law rivets...

...or improvement for the worker, apart from Socialism. Marx, in denouncing the capitalist system says: "It follows, therefore, that in proportion as capital...be his payment high or low, must grow worse." The Communist Manifesto says: "The modern laborer on the contrary, instead of rising with the progress...

...strengthening of the dependence of labor upon capital.2 " It follows, therefore," says Marx later on, " that in proportion as capital accumulates, the lot...laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse." 3 Except, accordingly, in a toning down of their figures of speech, the American Socialists, in substituting...

...of labor power is much above the cost of maintenance, only too often much below that cost, but •" in proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the...laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse." 3 Under no circumstances does Marx's law of value regulate the price of the commodity, labor power....

...doctrine does seem unequivocal:— 'In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the labourer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse. The law, finally, that always equilibrates the relative surplus population, or industrial reserve army, to the extent and energy of accumulation, this law...

...support of this psychological interpretation, attention is called to the fact that Marx maintained that " the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse." " Marx had in mind," declares Boudin, " the social condition of the workingman and this social condition...

...subsistence necessary for the production of labor-power." * In another passage of the same work he says: "In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of...his payment high or low, must grow worse. The law that always equilibriates the relative surplus population or industrial reserve army to the extent...