Nikolay Levin went on talking: "You know that capital oppresses the laborer.

The laborers with us, the peasants, bear all the burden of labor, and are so placed that however much they work they can't escape from their position of beasts of burden.

All the profits of labor, on which they might improve their position, and gain leisure for themselves, and after that education, all the surplus values are taken from them by the capitalists.

And society's so constituted that the harder they work, the greater the profit of the merchants and landowners, while they stay beasts of burden to the end.