Everyone is a buyer, everyone's a potential purchaser and everyone's a potential vendor.
But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by the non-availability of one of more elements of the process - the accumulated stock in a money form, the labor-power to be utilized by the producer, the network of distributors, the consumers who were purchasers. One or more elements were missing because, in previous historical social systems, one or more of these elements was not commodified or was insufficiently commodified.
Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. . . . The sensibilities of no two men are the same. Some would refuse to sell property without carefully explaining all about its merits and defects, and putting themselves in the purchasers' place and inquiring if he himself would buy under the circumstances. But such men never would be prosperous merchants.
Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.
Good things soon find a purchaser.
There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.
