Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. Hence it has robbed the whole world... of its proper value. Money is the alienated esse… - Karl Marx

Money is the alienated essence of man's labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

The desire after hoarding is in its very nature unsatiable. In its qualitative aspect, or formally considered, money has no bounds to its efficacy, i.e., it is the universal representative of material wealth, because it is directly convertible into any other commodity. But, at the same time, every actual sum of money is limited in amount, and, therefore, as a means of purchasing, has only a limited efficacy. This antagonism between the quantitative limits of money and its qualitative boundlessness, continually acts as a spur to the hoarder in his Sisyphus-like labour of accumulating. It is with him as it is with a conqueror who sees in every new country annexed, only a new boundary.

In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.