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The family resemblance of capitalism with social orders like that of the Egyptian Pharaoh… (Version I).

The power of the class that personifies Capital is virtually absolute (Version I).

Individuals become media through which the powers of the personifications are exercised.

The producer's estranged activity turns against the producer.

Personifications of social power seem to animate the world (Version I).

What the individual can no longer do, money can do.

The last stage of capitalist development—when estranged labor and Capital are universalized (Version I).

While everyone is deprived of self-powers, no one is excluded from a share in the personified powers (Version I).

Yet what develops under the hegemony of the dominant form is a practice that undermines it (Version I).

"The exponents of this conception have only been able to see in history the political actions of princes and States."

Yet what develops under the hegemony of the dominant form is a practice that undermines it (Version II).

At the heart of the production process itself, the dominant forms of social activity do not exhaust the possibilities (Version I).

"The appropriation of a totality of instruments of production is the development of a totality of capacities in the individuals themselves… Only at this stage does self-activity coincide with material life… In order, therefore, to assert themselves as individuals, they must overthrow the State… ridding themselves of all the muck of ages and becoming fitted to found society anew…"