Improved productivity means less human sweat, not more.

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.

As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

Capitalism has triumphed all over the world, but this triumph is only the prelude to the triumph of labour over capital.

In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.