So who “secures food”? I ask myself. Then Engels quotes Karl Marx as writing, …In order to make use of a slave, a man must possess two kinds of things: First, the instruments and material for his slaves’ labour [a household?] and secondly, the minimum means of subsistence for him … Before slave labour could become the dominant mode of production in a whole social group an even far higher increase in production, trade and accumulation of wealth was essential.3 “Property turns out to be the right, on the part of the capitalist, to appropriate the unpaid labour of others or its product, and, on
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