capitalist-monopolists

Updated: June 22, 2025

Perhaps the most striking feature in this dislocation was the transition from direct barter to exchange through the medium of money, and the consequent suddenly increased importance of the rôle played by usury in the social life of the time. The scarcity of money is a perennial theme of complaint for which the new large capitalist-monopolists are made responsible.

Ernest Belfort Bax - German Culture Past and Present