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

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.

The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.

There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

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.

All our inventions and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force.