Journal article
Introduction to an extract from Karl Marx’s Manuscripts of 1844: “The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society”
Pages 45 to 48
Cite this article
- BORNHAUSEN, Stéphane,
- Bornhausen, Stéphane.
- Bornhausen, S.
https://doi.org/10.3917/cjung.143.0045
Cite this article
- Bornhausen, S.
- Bornhausen, Stéphane.
- BORNHAUSEN, Stéphane,
https://doi.org/10.3917/cjung.143.0045
English
In this excerpt from the Manuscripts of 1844, entitled “The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society,” Karl Marx presents money as a highly ambivalent power, both divine and perverse. The essay is suggestive, attesting to reflection on the human consequences of mercantile exchanges.