We saw in Part IV., when analysing the production of relative surplus-value:
 within the capitalist system all methods for raising the social productiveness
 of labour are brought about at the cost of the individual labourer; all means
 for the development of production transform themselves into means of domination
 over, and exploitation of, the producers; they mutilate the labourer into a
 fragment of a man, degrade him to the level of an appendage of a machine,
 destroy every remnant of charm in his work and turn it into a hated toil; they
 estrange from him the intellectual potentialities of the labour process in the
 same proportion as science is incorporated in it as an independent power; they
 distort the conditions under which he works, subject him during the labour
 process to a despotism the more hateful for its meanness; they transform his
 life-time into working-time, and drag his wife and child beneath the wheels of
 the Juggernaut of capital. But all methods for the production of surplus-value
 are at the same time methods of accumulation; and every extension of
 accumulation becomes again a means for the development of those methods. It
 follows therefore that in proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the
 labourer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse. The
 law, finally, that always equilibrates the relative surplus population, or
 industrial reserve army, to the extent and energy of accumulation, this law
 rivets the labourer to capital more firmly than the wedges of Vulcan did
 Prometheus to the rock. It establishes an accumulation of misery, corresponding
 with accumulation of capital. Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore,
 at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil slavery, ignorance,
 brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole, i.e., on the side
 of the class that produces its own product in the form of capital. [25] This antagonistic character of
 capitalistic accumulation is enunciated in various forms by political
 economists, although by them it is confounded with phenomena, certainly to some
 extent analogous, but nevertheless essentially distinct, and belonging to
 pre-capitalistic modes of production.