• Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.

    Karl Marx: Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.
    Karl Marx (1973). “Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy”, Vintage Books USA