“Wages are a direct consequence of estranged labor, and estranged labor is the direct cause of private property.”
― Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
― Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
“Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man.
Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private property for society.
But Christ is alienated God and alienated man. God has value only insofar as he represents Christ, and man has value only insofar as he represents Christ. It is the same with money.”
― Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private property for society.
But Christ is alienated God and alienated man. God has value only insofar as he represents Christ, and man has value only insofar as he represents Christ. It is the same with money.”
― Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
“If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, connecting me with nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, also the universal agent of separation?”
― Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
― Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
“The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.”
― Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
― Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
“Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.”
― Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
― Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
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