Wage-Labour and Capital Quotes

“... that with the defeat of the revolutionary workers, Europe finally fell back into its old double slavery, into Anglo-Russian slavery. The June struggle in Paris, the fall of Vienna, the tragicomedy of Berlin in November 1848, the desperate efforts of Poland, Italy, and Hungary, the starvation of Ireland—these were the main moments in which the European class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the working class came to a head, in which we proved that every revolutionary uprising, no matter how distant its goal may seem from the class struggle, must fail until the revolutionary working class wins, that every social reform remains a utopia until the proletarian revolution and the feudal counterrevolution clash in a world war.
In our account, as in reality, Belgium and Switzerland were tragicomic caricatures in the great historical tableau, one a model state of bourgeois monarchy, the other a model state of bourgeois republic, both states imagining themselves to be as independent of the class struggle as they were of the European revolution.”
― Karl Marx, Wage-Labour and Capital

“In place of the man who has been dismissed by the machine, the factory may employ, perhaps, three children and one woman! And must not the wages of the man have previously sufficed for the three children and one woman? Must not the minimum wages have sufficed for the preservation and propagation of the race? What, then, do these beloved bourgeois phrases prove? Nothing more than that now four times as many workers' lives are used up as there were previously, in order to obtain the livelihood of one working family.”
― Karl Marx, Wage-Labour and Capital