one roof, but rather a great machine itself, of which the machines are parts; as Marx says: “An organised system of machines to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automaton is the most developed form of production by machinery. Here we have in place of the isolated machine a mechanical monster, whose body fills whole factories, and whose demon power, at first veiled under the slow and measured motion of his giant limbs, at last breaks out into the fast and furious whirl of his countless working organs.”
This is the machine that has produced the great revolution in production of our epoch. The workman once a handicrafts man, having all control over the article he produced, next became a part of a human machine, and finally has become the servant and tender of a machine; and by means of all this the fully developed modern capitalist has been brought into existence.
248 We have now come to the point where it is necessary to consider the circulation of commodities; the first means to this circulation being the establishment of