But they have neither sold nor exchanged it; and you, capitalist, you have not earned it.

That you should have a partial right to the whole, in return for the materials that you have furnished and the provisions that you have supplied, is perfectly just.

You contributed to the production, you ought to share in the enjoyment.

But your right does not annihilate that of the laborers, who, in spite of you, have been your colleagues in the work of production.

Why do you talk of wages?
The money with which you pay the wages of the laborers remunerates them for only a few years of the perpetual possession which they have abandoned to you.