The Imaginary Flowers Of Religion

It Has Drowned The Most Heavenly Ecstasies Of Religious Fervour, Of Chivalrous Enthusiasm, Of Philistine Sentimentalism, In The Icy Water Of Egotistical Calculation. It Has Resolved Personal Worth Into Exchange Value, And In Place Of Numberless Indefeasible Chartered Freedoms, It Has Set Up That Single, Unconscionable Freedom -- Free Trade. In One Word, For Exploitation, Veiled By Religious And Political Illusions, It Has Substituted Naked, Shameless, Direct, Brutal Exploitation.

An Increase In The Productivity Of Labour Means Nothing More Than That The Same Capital Creates The Same Value With Less Labour, Or That Less Labour Creates The Same Product With More Capital.

Without Doubt, Machinery Has Greatly Increased The Number Of Well-to-do Idlers.

Communism Is The Riddle Of History Solved, And It Knows Itself To Be This Solution.

The Most Violent, Mean And Malignant Passions Of The Human Breast, The Furies Of Private Interest.