Revenue (n.) look like the fruit of three perennial trees — profit, rent and wages — while in truth capital is a pumping machine for surplus labour, land a magnet for part of what it pumps, and labour the means by which the worker gets back a part of what he made.
Revenue (n.) is, for one person, capital for another — the maxim that lets economists skip the hard question of how society's capital gets replaced.
Revenue (n.) is money not advanced but spent — money that leaves the circuit of capital for the capitalist's esteemed self and family.
Revenue (n.) is the word through which Adam Smith smuggles capital back in by the back door — it means what returns, and capital too returns.
Revenue (n.) means, for the worker, nothing more than the values got by the constantly repeated sale of labour-power — values that serve only to reproduce the commodity he must sell again.
Revenue (n.) is the root of Smith's trouble: he made it the source of commodity value, when it is commodity value that is the source of revenue.