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— Paraphrase of the ideas of Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume I, Chapter 15, Section 10: Modern Industry and Agriculture

Source: Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume I, Chapter 15 (“Machinery and Modern Industry”), Section 10 (“Modern Industry and Agriculture”).

Link: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm#S10

Note: This statement is a paraphrase, not a direct quotation. The original passage reads: “Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth — the soil and the labourer.”