The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.

Marx set out to resolve the contradictions and to correct the errors in classical political economy. In this he thought he had succeeded very well. Judging by the sound and the fury of the controversy surrounding his interpretations, he either succeeded too well or deluded himself to the success of his enterprise.

Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.

The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals. Capital is, after all, money used in a certain way, and is by no means identical with all money uses.

If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, then capitalism is not long for this world.

The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.