Consumption (n.) is a moment of production in that, the individual who produces an object, by then consuming it, returns to himself, and returns as a productive and self reproducing individual.
Consumption (n.) is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.
Consumption (n.) is a kind of perpetual motion machine. While there is no production without a need, consumption reproduces that need.
Consumption (n.) is also production: in eating, man produces his own body.
Consumption (n.) gives the product its finishing touch by annihilating it: a garment becomes a garment only by being worn, a house a dwelling only by being lived in.
Consumption (n.) is the act through which the product becomes a product — and the producer becomes a producer.
Consumption (n.) is limited not by what society could produce or could use, but by antagonistic distribution that holds the vast majority to a minimum.
Consumption (n.) once credit is organized shows up as an accumulation of loan capital, since the rise in the capitalists' spending is expressed that way.
Consumption (n.) beyond his own needs is presupposed by every capitalist only as a social act, never as his own act: each counts on others to buy.
Consumption (n.) reproduces not only people but classes — the capitalist class, the working class, and with them the capitalist character of the whole production process.
Consumption (n.) at the scale of society looks like a miracle: two-thirds of what is consumed reappears in new form as if society had spent no labour on it at all.