... primitive ac-cumulation. As with the stroke of an enchanter’s wand, it endows unpro-ductive money with the power of creation and thus turns it into capital,without forcing it to expose itself ... did not foresee that it would be possible for capital, in the faceof the imminent threat to its existence, to transpoliticize itself, as it were: tolaunch itself into an orbit beyond the relations ... political economy and thelaw of value; it is in this sense that it has successfully escaped its own end.Henceforward it can function independently of its own former aims, andabsolutely without...