Karl Marx on Money
Browse 11 quotations attributed to Karl Marx, catalogued under money, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Karl Marx, entry #150716: "Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity."
Attributed to Karl Marx, entry #33338: "The Irish famine of 1846 killed more than 1,000,000 people, but it killed poor devils only. To the wealth of the country it did not the slightest damage."
11 Quotes by Karl Marx on Money
"Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity."
"The Irish famine of 1846 killed more than 1,000,000 people, but it killed poor devils only. To the wealth of the country it did not the slightest damage."
"But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price."
"Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed."
"Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth."
"Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money."
"Money is itself a product of circulation."
"And his money he cannot eat."
"Capital is money: Capital is commodities. For the movement, in the course of which it adds surplus-value, is its own movement, its expansion, therefore, is automatic expansion. Because it is value, it has acquired the occult quality of being able to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs."
"The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces, the more his production increases in power and range. The worker becomes an ever cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates. With the increasing value of the world of things proceeds in direct proportion the devaluation of the world of men. Labour produces not only commodities; it produces itself and the worker as a commodity - and does so in the proportion in which it produces commodities generally."
"Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it - when it exists for us as capital, or when it is directly possessed, eaten, drunk, worn, inhabited, etc., - in short, when it is used by us. Although private property itself again conceives all these direct realizations of possession as means of life, and the life which they serve as means is the life of private property - labour and conversion into capital. In place of all these physical and mental senses there has therefore come the sheer estrangement of all these senses – the sense of having. The human being had to be reduced to this absolute poverty in order that he might yield his inner wealth to the outer world."