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.

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

As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah, so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital.

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

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

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