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Bookkeeping (n.) stays as separate from production as a bill of lading from the cargo, and the book-keeper is paid out of a deduction from the common product, not out of his own labour.
Bookkeeping (n.) grows more necessary the more social production becomes, more needed under capitalism than among peasants and handicraftsmen, and more needed still in communal production than under capitalism.
Bookkeeping (n.) is capital's symbolic reflection in the imagination — commodities reduced to names of things whose ideal value is written down in money of account.