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> [Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production is no longer to find producers and to multiply their powers but to discover consumers, to excite their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-lafargue/confronted-with-this-double-madness-of-the-labourers-killing/)

[Paul Lafargue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-lafargue/)

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> [Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-lafargue/work-work-proletarians-to-increase-social-wealth-and-your-individual/)

[Paul Lafargue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-lafargue/)

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## Other authors on Capitalist Production

## More by Paul Lafargue

> [In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-lafargue/in-proportion-as-the-machine-is-improved-and-performs-man-s-work-with/)

[Paul Lafargue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-lafargue/)

> [Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-lafargue/our-epoch-has-been-called-the-century-of-work-it-is-in-fact-the/)

[Paul Lafargue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-lafargue/)

> [Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-lafargue/confronted-with-this-double-madness-of-the-labourers-killing/)

[Paul Lafargue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-lafargue/)

> [“In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power is concentrated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-lafargue/in-proportion-as-the-mass-of-citizens-who-possess-political-rights/)

[Paul Lafargue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-lafargue/)

> [The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-lafargue/the-philosophers-of-antiquity-taught-contempt-for-work-that/)

[Paul Lafargue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-lafargue/)

> [Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-lafargue/work-work-proletarians-to-increase-social-wealth-and-your-individual/)

[Paul Lafargue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-lafargue/)

> [O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-lafargue/o-laziness-mother-of-the-arts-and-noble-virtues-be-thou-the-balm-of/)

[Paul Lafargue](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-lafargue/)

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