In the division of the joint-product, capital wanted all it could get, and labor wanted all it could get.

This quarrel over the division was irreconcilable.

So long as the system of capitalistic production existed, labor and capital continued to quarrel over the division of the joint-product.

It is a ludicrous spectacle to us, but we must not forget that we have seven centuries' advantage over those that lived in that time.
Again the whole table agreed with Ernest.
"Now, suppose labor, having received its fifty dollars, wanted to buy back shoes.

It could only buy back fifty dollars' worth.