[Marx and chill 9] The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society - Karl Marx'  Manuscripts of 1844
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Date: 31/01/2022

Summary of chapter 9 of Karl Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: "The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society." Today we discuss what it means to have money for the bourgeois.

This is the final chapter of our reading of the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. In this chapter he argues that the most distinguished possession one can have is money. Because it can own all objects. That is the power of money. Money obtains the things you need to live. AND it can also help you obtain to the existence of others, to serve your own life or existence.

In the "The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society" of the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 Marx argues: that which I am unable to do as a human, I am able to do by means of money. It converts my wishes from something in the realm of imagination, translates them from their imagined or desired existence into their sensuous, actual existence -from imagined being into real being. Money is the truly creative power. 

Those who can buy bravery is brave, though they are cowards. As money is not exchanged for one thing, but the entire objective world of humans and nature, from the standpoint of its possessor it therefore serves to exchange every quality for every other, even contradictory, quality and object; it is the fraternization of impossibilities. In "The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society" of the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, we learn that money becomes the glue of society.

Thank you for reading Karl Marx's Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 with me!! Today's video on "The Power of Money in Bourgeois Society" concludes the first installment of my series. Thank you for being a part of this, we will continue to read leftist theory in the future.

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