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

Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.

Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.

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.