There can be no real and effective 'freedom' in a society based on the power of money, in a society in which the masses of working people live in poverty and the handful of rich live like parasites.

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones.

In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.

The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value.

An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.