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Title: Draft Resolution on the Consequences of the Use of Machinery by the Capitalists (1868)
Description: Resolution moved by Marx in the General Council as the conclusion of its discussion on machinery: in the hands of the capitalist class machinery is an instrument of despotism and extortion, and at the same time it creates the material conditions for a truly social system of production.
Author: Karl Marx
Date: 1868-08
URL: https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/originales/1868%20Draft%20Resolution%20on%20the%20Consequences%20of%20the%20Use%20of%20Machinery%20by%20the%20Capitalists
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*Moved by Karl Marx as the conclusion of the preceding discussion, seconded by Jung and carried at the meeting of the General Council of the International Working Men’s Association of August 11, 1868; moved by Eccarius at the Brussels Congress on September 9, 1868, and made part of its decision on machinery. Attributed to Karl Marx by MEW (vol. 16). Text from* The General Council of the First International. Minutes*, vol. II (1866-1868), Moscow, Progress Publishers, n.d. [1963-68], p. 240, which prints the Minute Book. [Traducción al español](https://marxismo.school/archivo/marx-engels/1868%20Proyecto%20de%20resoluci%C3%B3n%20sobre%20las%20consecuencias%20del%20empleo%20de%20las%20m%C3%A1quinas%20por%20los%20capitalistas)*

Resolved: that on the one side machinery has proved a most powerful instrument of despotism and extortion in the hands of the capitalist class;

that on the other side the development of machinery creates the material conditions necessary for the superseding of the wages-system by a truly social system of production.