By Suzanne De Brunhoff

The republication of Suzanne de Brunhoff’s vintage research into Karl Marx’s perception of “the cash commodity” shines mild on commodities and their fetishism. The research of cash because the crystallization of price in its fabric feel is important to how we comprehend capitalism and the way it may be abolished. Marx on Money is a sublime research of the way funds, credits, debt and cost healthy into the “logic of capital” that characterizes commodity society.

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Marx on money

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They pass the barber shaving customers at a corner. The apothecary is grinding nutmeg for cough relief. There are onions for your piles. Everything is present. Every task is clear. That is the natural order: people getting by with the sweat of their brows, as God commanded. Even the feudal lord in the country keeps an army and hires it out, governs his lands. That is understandable. Even the priest helps your soul to paradise when the solid flesh finally melts and the breath rattles its last. Who would deny the need for a church?

Otherwise, who knows what complicity might arise HW871501_Text 18/07/2013 18:03:50 50 Tim Parks between a branch director and his staff in a distant city? In addition to the official ledgers, there was also a “secret book” in which the director wrote down such things as the discretionary deposits of clients who wished to remain anonymous. And salaries. No one must know another’s salary. There must be no opportunity for private gripes and local conspiracies against the head office. The secret book was made of parchment, not paper, to last longer, and kept under lock and key, often in the director’s bedroom.

It is losing value against the Venetian ducat, and the Roman florin, not to mention Geneva’s golden mark. These experts know which mints are reducing or increasing the gold content, which currencies are silver based and which gold. Milan’s silver imperial just goes down and down. They know which governments are trying to intervene in the market, which way the speculators are moving. They get together daily and fix the rates as honestly as they can. Why, then, is the florin always worth about 4 pence more in Florence than it is in London?

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