Labour Is The Source Of All Wealth,

If In All Ideology Men And Their Circumstances Appear Upside-down As In A Camera Obscura, This Phenomenon Arises Just As Much From Their Historical Life-process As The Inversion Of Objects On The Retina Does From The Physical Life-process.

Thus At Every Step We Are Reminded That We By No Means Rule Over Nature Like A Conqueror Over A Foreign People, Like Someone Standing Outside Nature - But That We, With Flesh, Blood And Brain, Belong To Nature, And Exist In Its Midst, And That All Our Mastery Of It Consists In The Fact That We Have The Advantage Over All Other Creatures Of Being Able To Learn Its Laws And Apply Them Correctly.

By The Same Right Under Which France Took Flanders, Lorraine And Alsace, And Will Sooner Or Later Take Belgium — By That Same Right Germany Takes Over Schleswig; It Is The Right Of Civilisation As Against Barbarism, Of Progress As Against Stability.

Competition Permits The Capitalist To Deduct From The Price Of Labour Power That Which The Family Earns From Its Own Little Garden Or Field; The Workers Are Compelled To Accept Any Piece Wages Offered To Them, Because Otherwise They Would Get Nothing At All, And They Could Not Live From The Products Of Their Small-scale Agriculture Alone, And Because, On The Other Hand, It Is Just This Agriculture And Landownership Which Chains Them To The Spot And Prevents Them From Looking Around For Other Employment.

Only Sound Common Sense, Respectable Fellow That He Is, In The Homely Realm Of His Own Four Walls, Has Very Wonderful Adventures Directly He Ventures Out Into The Wide World Of Research.