Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities.

Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates.

The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money.

The task of abolishing the essence of Jewry is in truth the task of abolishing Jewry in civil society, abolishing the inhumanity of today's practice of life, the summit of which is the money system.

Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.