Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other.

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.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.