The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent.

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.

As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

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

Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker.