“Mammonism is the heavy, all-encompassing and overwhelming sickness from which our contemporary cultural sphere, and indeed all mankind, suffers. It is like a devastating illness, like a devouring poison that has gripped the peoples of the world.”

— Gottfried Feder

"Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money" (1919)

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German economist and politician 1883–1941

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“Mammonism is the unlimited hypertrophy of the — in itself healthy — human drive for acquisition. Mammonism is the lust for money grown into a madness, which knows no higher goal than to pile money on top of money, which seeks with unequaled brutality to coerce all forces of the world into its service, and must lead to the economic enslavement, to the exploitation of the work-potential of all peoples of the world.”

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"Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money" (1919)

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