Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Fascism in power is the open, terroristic dictatorship of the most reactionary, the most chauvinistic, the most imperialistic elements of finance capitalism. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
[T]he task of abolishing the essence of Jewry is in truth the task of abolishing Jewry in civil society, abolishing the inhumanity… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, connecting me with nature and man, is not… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Such a crises occurs only where the ever-lengthening chain of payments, and an artificial system of settling them, has been fully developed.… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Let us consider the actual, worldly Jew -- not the Sabbath Jew, as Bauer does, but the everyday Jew. ... What is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Contempt for theory, art, history, and for man as an end in himself, which is contained in an abstract form in the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. Hence it has robbed the whole world... of its proper value. Money is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are… — Karl Marx Copy Share
As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way… — Karl Marx Copy Share
As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor… — Karl Marx Copy Share
Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the… — Karl Marx Copy Share
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness. — Karl Marx Copy Share
“If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become… — Karl Marx Copy Share
Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of… — Karl Marx Copy Share
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization. — Karl Marx Copy Share
So in Jewry we recognise a contemporary universal anti-social phenomenon, which has reached its present pitch through a process of, historical development in which… — Karl Marx Copy Share
If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work… — Karl Marx Copy Share
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