Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering.
Karl MarxMachines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
Karl MarxThe method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.
Karl MarxCommunism deprives no man of the ability to appropriate the fruits of his labour. The only thing it deprives him of is the ability to enslave others by means of such appropriations.
Karl Marx