If the introduction and increase of machinery means the displacement of millions of manual, by a few machine-workers, improvement in machinery means the displacement of more and more of the machine-workers themselves.
Friedrich Engels
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880; English translation 1892); Exact wording and attribution checked. Critique of capitalist industrialization; Edward Aveling translation.
- Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880; English translation 1892)
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