Today, in the basement laundry of the building where I live, I met a nameless woman who has done wash there since 1978. We bemoaned the state of the machines. and as the elevator rose shared a brief ride together.
In Edinburgh the public drying rooms were a source for social improvement.
Today the poor wash their close together, the rich apart.
Capital opens with
The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,”[1] its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a commodity.
Which is a rather amazing sentence.
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