The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

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.

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.

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.