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

Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.

But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

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

The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.

So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond.