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diff --git a/content/marx/the-principles-of-communism/index.md b/content/marx/the-principles-of-communism/index.md index 22cd9f9..c44dd27 100644 --- a/content/marx/the-principles-of-communism/index.md +++ b/content/marx/the-principles-of-communism/index.md @@ -45,9 +45,7 @@ This is how it has come about that in civilized countries at the present time ne 2. The class of the wholly propertyless, who are obliged to sell their labor to the bourgeoisie in order to get, in exchange, the means of subsistence for their support. This is called the class of proletarians, or the proletariat. -## 5. Under what conditions does this sale of the - -labor of the proletarians to the bourgeoisie take place? +## 5. Under what conditions does this sale of the labor of the proletarians to the bourgeoisie take place? Labor is a commodity, like any other, and its price is therefore determined by exactly the same laws that apply to other commodities. In a regime of big industry or of free competition – as we shall see, the two come to the same thing – the price of a commodity is, on the average, always equal to its cost of production. Hence, the price of labor is also equal to the cost of production of labor. |