“But simultaneously with the development of capitalist production the credit system also develops. The money-capital which the capitalist cannot as yet employ in his own business is employed by others, who pay him interest for its use.”

—  Karl Marx

Vol. II, Ch. XVII, p. 325.
(Buch II) (1893)

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