Sublime

From the perspective of the Communist Manifesto coauthor Friedrich Engels, however, this indebtedness was just the yoke that capitalists needed to keep labor in line. Home ownership, and the mortgage it required, would be “chaining the worker by his property to the factory in which he works.”

The accumulation of capital increases the division of labor, and the division of labor increases the numbers of the workers. Conversely, the workers’ numbers increase the division of labor,

In this process, Marx saw the seeds of a society that would eventually be reduced to two classes—owners and workers.

The entire works of Marx are permeated with a spirit incompatible with the vulgar materialism of Engels and Lenin. He never regards man as being a mere part of nature, but always as being at the same time, owing to the fact that he exercises a free activity, an antagonistic term vis-à-vis nature.