“As for the commercial business, I can no longer make head or…”

“As for the commercial business, I can no longer make head or tail of it. At one moment crisis seems imminent and the City prostrated, the next everything is set fair. I know that none of this will have any impact on the catastrophe.”

— Karl Marx

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Title: Wikiquote: Karl Marx
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Letter to Friedrich Engels (4 February 1852), quoted in The Collected Works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Volume 39. Letters 1852–55 (2010), p. 32

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Marx, Karl. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Karl Marx. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Marx

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