“These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.”

—  Karl Marx

Vol. II, Ch. XXI, p. 497.
(Buch II) (1893)

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