The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. – Karl Marx
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. – Karl Marx
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. – Karl Marx
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. – Karl Marx