“Ifis the bond binding me tolife, binding society to me, connecting me with nature and man, is not money the bond of all? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, also the universalof?”

—  Karl Marx

Source: Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto

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German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and … 1818–1883

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