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.

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

As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

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.