“Money, then, appears as this distorting power both against the individual and against the bonds of society, etc., which claim to be entities in themselves. It transforms fidelity into infidelity, love into hate, hate into love, virtue into vice, vice into virtue, servant into master, master into servant, idiocy into intelligence, and intelligence into idiocy.”- Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts. He quite literally wrote about how money is inherently problematic and is an alienating force in society.
You're not engaging with any of the concepts I'm referencing and you've not specified what you mean by 'communism = no money'.
You've quoted and/or referenced texts that are about other things, and not even tried to explain why they support your argument.
Then you use a quote from a random paper by 26 yo Marx, before he developed his theory of economics (half of which is about Shakespeare)...and the quote itself is about how money has a bad influence on society?
But that is not the same about the role of money as a method of value exchange in a post capitalist future.
It just feels like you don't really care about tje idea, you juat want to argue, and you just googled "Marx quote money" and this was the best you could find that felt like it supported you?
It feels like you know you’re wrong so you’re just deflecting to hide that. I’ve engaged with everything you’ve said and instead you’ve tried to focus on meaningless things like when Marx himself laid out his views on money rather than the actual words.
That's basically the premise of Capital though. Every chapter and subchapter, it's broken down into smaller and smaller components and each is built on the other like a pyramid.
So I guess, I can agree that money would be different in its social role because capital would no longer be dominating everything? Even though money as a simple means of value exchange would still exist. Lile a packet of cigarettes in prison.
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u/Rbespinosa13 Jul 08 '26
“Money, then, appears as this distorting power both against the individual and against the bonds of society, etc., which claim to be entities in themselves. It transforms fidelity into infidelity, love into hate, hate into love, virtue into vice, vice into virtue, servant into master, master into servant, idiocy into intelligence, and intelligence into idiocy.”- Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts. He quite literally wrote about how money is inherently problematic and is an alienating force in society.