 | Karl Marx - 1908 - 144 pages
...great part not only of the existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises there breaks...subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and whyP Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too... | |
 | Reginald Wright Kauffman - 1910 - 282 pages
...return put on its trial, each time more threateningly, the existence of the bourgeois society. ... In these crises there breaks out an epidemic that,...seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of overproduction. . . . The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them. And... | |
 | Oscar Douglas Skelton - 1911 - 366 pages
...catastrophes in commerce and industry. sions.1 In the Communist Manifesto the same explanation is offered: "In these crises there breaks out an epidemic that...an absurdity — the epidemic of over-production." 2 In the work from which the passage quoted in the preceding paragraph is taken, Engels finds the immediate... | |
 | 1915 - 476 pages
...and Engels find that over-production is the cause of crises. Thus in the Communist Manifesto we find: "In these crises there breaks out an epidemic that...an absurdity — the epidemic of over-production." Also in the description of a crisis by Engels, as we have given it above, are the words, " The mass... | |
 | Karl Marx - 1986 - 354 pages
...great part not only of the existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises there breaks...to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. The productive forces... | |
 | Simeon Larson, Bruce Nissen - 1987 - 414 pages
...great part not only of the existing products, but also the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises there breaks...that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity—the epidemic of overproduction. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of... | |
 | David W. Conklin - 1991 - 436 pages
...great part not only of the existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises there breaks...epochs, would have seemed an absurdity - the epidemic of overproduction.29 Under these conditions, Marx believes that the revolution will inevitably succeed.... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1991 - 434 pages
...that can get no hold of them". Eight years later Marx-Engels trenchantly described the outbreak of an "epidemic that in all earlier epochs would have...seemed an absurdity— the epidemic of overproduction". The period of depression is characterized as a relapse into "a state of momentary barbarism". See Carlyle:... | |
 | Roger S. Gottlieb - 1992 - 270 pages
...existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. . . . There breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier...seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of overproduction. . . . And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? on the one hand by enforced destruction of... | |
 | Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon - 1994 - 388 pages
...great part not only of the existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises there breaks...to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. The productive forces... | |
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In these crises a great part not only of the existing products, but also of the previously created productive forces, are periodically destroyed. In these crises there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity—... 
