Preteurs et emprunterus - I guess that means lenders and borrowers?
Neither class is all of a piece.  Economics requires that lenders be divided
between at least savers, who create capital,  and landowners who do not.

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"L'interet d'un capital, par example, se détermine d'après le résultat d'une
lutte entre deux classes de personnes; les prêteurs qui veulent Jouir sand
travail, et les emprunteurs dont les fonds ne suffisent pas è leur travail
……  (Sismondi, De la richesse commerciale; ou, Principes d'économie
politique, appliqués a la législation du commerce, Geneva 1803, p. 73)

Best, Daniele Besomi




Il giorno 22-lug-2015, alle ore 17.35, michael perelman ha scritto:

> Marx cited Sismondi, in his preface to The Eighteenth Brumaire " "The
Roman proletariat lived at the expense of society, while modern society
lives at the expense of the proletariat."  Sismondi is often credited with
coining the term "class struggle," but did he really use that term?
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