Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/213/en

This fact above all grounds the fundamentally polar mode of production in industry and agriculture. It also expresses itself in the fact that the agricultural means of production — soil, plants, animals — are not subject to depreciation, owing to their capacity for self-renewal. What depreciation as capital reserve is in industry, that is in agriculture the value-preserving and value-developing force of the farm organism as a wholeness. The replacement of human labour-power and animal traction by the machine has nonetheless brought agriculture substantial depreciation charges that do not relate to the means of production as such. But it is not the combine harvester that produces the grain, not the milking machine that produces the milk — it is life, the relationship-creating world of forces that has its origin in the essential being of enlivened and ensouled nature.