Karl Marx, Capital, Volume One, Part II: The Transformation of Money and Capital CHAPTER FOUR: THE GENERAL FORMULA FOR CAPITAL: "The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews . . ." Social-Darwinist conservatives have always picked on children https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/append.htm A general prohibition of child labor is incompatible with the existence of large-scale industry and hence an empty, pious wish. . . "