The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war.

Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.

There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an architect like Moshe Safdie that they are tired of it, then can philosophical thinking be far behind?

When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.

Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.

Not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use. For this is the only means that capitalism has at its disposal to achieve the level of devaluation now required. The idea is dreadful in its implications. What better reason could there be to declare that it is time for capitalism to be gone, to give way to some saner mode of production?

Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.