The effect of this immense revolution (Capitalism) is always the same: established rights of direct access to one’s own product were replaced by new rights by which peasants and workers were legally excluded from access to their means of livelihood. Only by understanding that the seemingly concrete entity of capital is in fact the representation of this relationship of dependency between two categories of social existence can the significance of capital be grasped…

Robert Heilbroner

“The Nature and Logic of Capitalism”