Capital grows in one place to a huge mass in a single hand, because it has in another place been lost by many. This is centralisation proper, as distinct from accumulation and concentration.

But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.

Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!

In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.

If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction.

Classical political economy nearly touches the true relation of things, without, however,consciously formulating it. This it cannot so long as it sticks in its bourgeois skin.

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

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.

Unlimited exploitation of cheap labour-power is the sole foundation of their power to compete.

But, suppose, besides, that the making of the new machinery affords employment to a greater number of mechanics, can that be called compensation to the carpet makers, thrown on the streets?