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

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.

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 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.

When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.