Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/198/en

If one recognizes and appreciates the full weight of the polarity between the conditions of production in industry — which spring from the spirit of the human being — and those in agriculture — which are inherent in nature — then, strictly speaking, no capital can be formed in agriculture. For what is expended in labor through human spirit-force upon nature does not congeal into a means of production that sets itself beside nature the way a machine does; raw materials, energies, and laws of nature are not isolated out of the natural nexus and recombined anew. The spirit-achievement consists, on the contrary, in *thinking* the concept of the self-containedness of the organismic whole, and the labor-achievement in ordering the productive forces active in nature accordingly and bringing them into reciprocal interaction with one another. When an agricultural operation takes shape in faithful accordance with its conditions of production, it is an ever-becoming wholeness that includes the acting human being within itself and that reproduces itself in the very process of production. The formation of capital in agriculture — speaking in the transferred sense — is therefore to be sought above all in a time-event: in the preservation and development of the means of production, the cultivated soils, the cultivated plants, and the domestic animals, within the context of the superordinate wholeness of the farm organism.