The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self - earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The one with an air of importance, smirking, intent on business; the other hesitant, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but a hiding.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

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

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