Aug 21, 2017
Money was already the independent, if inadequate, form of value within the process of simple circulation. As capital (to repeat: capital is neither money nor commodity taken by itself, but rather the limitless and ceaseless movement of appreciation, M—C—M´), value not only possesses an independent form, it is now “a self-moving substance, which passes through a process of its own,” a rather curious subject with extraordinary powers: