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Agriculture (n.) makes farmers the most dependent class: a year to bring in a crop while borrowing from the smith and the tailor, and not even owning the land and the laws can save them.
Capital (n.) is a cabalistic word like church or state — one of those general terms invented by those who fleece mankind to conceal the hand that shears them.
Coinage (n.) began as private business and was seized and monopolized by governments only later — as long happened in Russia.
Compound interest (n.) makes demands no labour, productive power, ingenuity or art can answer.
The Division of labor (n.) leaves the worker nothing he can seize and say: this is my produce, this I will keep for myself.
A Farmer (n.) is made the most dependent class by the calendar: unable to bring his goods to market in less than a year, he must live on credit from the shoemaker, the tailor and the smith.
Fixed capital (n.) cannot claim a share of profit: the road-builder may share with the road-user, but the road itself cannot.
Master (n.) are labourers like their journeymen in one respect, and in that their interest is the same; but as capitalists or capitalists' agents their interest is decidedly opposed.
A Mint (n.) that coins for free taxes the nation for the benefit of those who deal in money.
Money (n.) was invented partly because things take unequal times to make: the hunter has surplus game long before the bow-maker has a bow to trade for it.