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 Thereby, that as an independent social power,

The existence of a class which possesses nothing but the ability to work is a necessary presupposition of capital.

Capital does not consist in the fact that accumulated labor serves living labor as a means for new production. It consists in the fact that living labor serves accumulated labor as the means of preserving and multiplying its exchange value.