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Karl Marx

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Since property here exists in the form of stock, its movement and transfer become purely a result of gambling on the stock exchange, where the little fish are swallowed by the sharks and the lambs by the stock exchange wolves.
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Vol. III, Ch. XXVII, The Role of Credit, p. 440

 
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