The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.

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.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.