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Vulgar economics (n.) merely ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠translates the notions of the competition-enslaved capitalist into ostensibly theoretical language and then sets out to prove them.

Vulgar economics (n.) wants ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠commerce and banking to spring from production as such — so that merchants and bankers would be as eternal as cattle-raising is to eating meat.

Vulgar economics (n.) welcomes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠interest-bearing capital as a godsend, because in it the source of profit can no longer be seen.

Vulgar economics (n.) repeats, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠when it is flat, stale and false, what was once new, profound and justified at an earlier stage.

Vulgar economics (n.) does ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠nothing but interpret, systematize and turn into apologetics the notions of people trapped inside bourgeois relations — and feels most at home exactly where things are most absurd.

Vulgar economics (n.) answers ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠every riddle with 'the growth of capital' — like a chemist who explains the soil's extra carbon by the growth of agriculture.

Vulgar economics (n.) shows ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its characteristic cretinism by mistaking the capitalist's spending of his revenue — which never enters the circuit of capital — for the characteristic circuit of capital.

Vulgar economics (n.) came ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in through the door Smith opened when he turned revenues from parts of value into the original sources of all value.