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

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

There can be no real and effective 'freedom' in a society based on the power of money, in a society in which the masses of working people live in poverty and the handful of rich live like parasites.

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

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

Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.