By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle.

The leading princes are the most servile tools of English despotism. . . . The native princes are the stronghold of the present abominable English system.

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.