The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.

The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.