Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.
Karl MarxIf money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?
Karl MarxVery well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.
Karl MarxYou are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.
Karl Marx