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

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

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

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

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