[lbo-talk] Marx on natural laws of capitalist production

[c b]

Intrinsically, it is not a question of the higher or lower degree of
development of the social antagonisms that result from the natural
laws of capitalist production. It is a question of these laws
themselves, of these tendencies working with iron necessity towards
inevitable results. The country that is more developed industrially
only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

-Karl Marx

Capital Volume One:
Preface to the
First German Edition

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p1.htm