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.
Karl MarxMoney is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.
Karl MarxAll forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy
Karl Marx