"... we must not forget thatThe devastating effects of  Bourgeois  industry  and commerce are only the organic results of the whole system of production as it is now constituted.

Today social  production rests on the supreme rule of capital.

 The centralization of capital is essential to the existence of capital as an independent power.

The destructive influence of that centralization upon the markets of the world does but reveal, in the most gigantic dimensions, the inherent organic laws of political economy now at work in every civilized town.

 The bourgeois period of history has to create the material basis of the new world — on the one hand universal intercourse founded upon the mutual dependency of mankind, and the means of that intercourse; on the other hand the development of the productive powers of man and the transformation of material production into a scientific domination of natural agencies.


 Bourgeois industry and commerce create these material conditions of a new world in the same way as geological revolutions have created the surface of the earth.

When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch,
 the market of the world and the modern powers of production,
 and subjected them to the common control of the  peoples of this world ,
then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain."