On June 27 1865, Marx read the concluding section of his address on Value, Price and Profit (alternatively "Wages, Price and Profit") which concluded as follows:
At the same time, and quite apart from the general servitude involved in > the wages system, the working class ought not to exaggerate to themselves > the ultimate working of these everyday struggles. They ought not to forget > that they are fighting with effects, but not with the causes of those > effects; that they are retarding the downward movement, but not changing > its direction; that they are applying palliatives, not curing the malady. > They ought, therefore, not to be exclusively absorbed in these unavoidable > guerilla fights incessantly springing up from the never ceasing > encroachments of capital or changes of the market. They ought to understand > that, with all the miseries it imposes upon them, the present system > simultaneously engenders the material conditions and the social forms > necessary for an economical reconstruction of society. Instead of the > conservative motto: “A fair day's wage for a fair day's work!” they ought > to inscribe on their banner the revolutionary watchword: “Abolition of the > wages system!" -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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