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Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

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A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what dis...more

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In reality, the laborer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital. His economic bondage is both brought about and concealed by the peri...more

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The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himse...more

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The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the ...more

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

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Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labor ...more

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Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and countries, rules the whole ...more