"The violent destruction of capital not by relations external to it, but rather as a condition of its self-preservation, is the most striking form in which advice is given it to be gone and to give room to a higher state of social production." — Grundrisse
"In a higher phase of communist society...after the productive forces have also increased with the all-round development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!" — Critique of the Gotha Programme
"The true barrier to capitalist production is capital itself... The means - development of the productive forces of social labour - come into persistent conflict with the limited end." — Capital Vol 3
"The violent destruction of capital not by relations external to it, but rather as a condition of its self-preservation, is the most striking form in which advice is given it to be gone and to give room to a higher state of social production." — Grundrisse
"At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production... From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution." — Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
need to have an alternative title for this page called "Productive forces"