Karl Marx Machines Quotations

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery.

Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines.