on the contrary, they have become too powerful . . . they bring disorder into the whole of bourgeois society, endanger the existence of bourgeois property (pp. 67-68).
This threat to bourgeois society is a device of its own creation, and the resulting working-class is now the means by which the bourgeois can be overthrown.
The bourgeois system has developed to the point that laborers are a "commodity," selling their labor power much like a farmer sells a crop. This creates a condition in which labor power (human life) is subject to free market forces. Man and machine are one and the same, the "cost of production" is the amount needed to keep the machine/man working (and man propagating future workers). An inverse situation occurs such that, "as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases . . . In proportion as the use of machinery and division of labor increases . . . the burden of toil also increases" (p. 69).
The proletariat, organized into the likes of a great army, is enslaved to both man and machin
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