“The abolition of enslavement to interest signifies the restoration of the free personality, the redemption of man from slavery, from the curse whereby Mammonism has bound his soul.”

—  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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