“Man's nature, he postulated, was to be a "free conscious producer," but so far he had not been able to express himself freely in productive activity. He had been driven to produce by need and greed, by a passion for accumulation which in the modern bourgeois age becomes accumulation of capital. His productive activity had always, therefore, been involuntary; it had been "labour.” CapitalismLaborCommunismBourgeoisCapitalHegelEstrangementMarxAlienated LaborEntfremdungsgeschichteFree Conscious Producer Book:The Marx-Engels reader Source: The Marx-Engels reader