Karl Marx Quotes About Gold

Quotes about: Gold

• The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production.

  Karl Marx

  Hunting, Discovery, America

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.823, Cosimo, Inc.

• Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

  Karl Marx

  Gold, Buying Gold, Silver

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.126, OUP Oxford

• Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.

  Karl Marx

  Hair, Holy Grail, Gold

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.149, Cosimo, Inc.

• In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.

  Karl Marx

  Fall, Safety, Gold

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1959). “Basic writings on politics and philosophy”, Anchor

• Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

  Karl Marx

  Simple, Gold, Commodity

  Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Economist”, p.27, VM eBooks

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