Many blogs posted this Karl Marx quote lately and some people get it via forwarded emails and text messages:

Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.
Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867

Sounds really good, doesn’t it? It’s like he’s about to say “and then Barack Obama will come as save the day with his renewable energy masterplan!”

However, when searching through the Das Kapital book this quote is nowhere to be found. Where did it come from? Nostradamus maybe? (It was Trzisno resenje to spot the oddity first.)

As a curiosity, this mystery did not stop Politika and Vecernje Novosti from publishing entire articles based on the alleged quotation without checking to see its credibility. Also, the Serbian version of the quote is even more popular on the internet than the English one! Which one was written first?

photo by Binary Ape

If you’ve read the entire Marx, than please help solve the mystery of the ghost Karl Marx quote!

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Is Santa Clause a [...]

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The [...]

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Era, Damjan and co can bring a lot of you back to your childhood with their performance, plus create some new Beatles fan on the way. Of course, everybody in the club knows every word of every song, which together with band’s adequate suits and instruments makes the atmosphere really great.

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