Money has been said to be the source of all evil but this is wrong, it is class society. However it must be said that money is nevertheless a truly insidious creature. Once it exists, it spreads and infects and corrupts everything around it and this means getting rid of it. Building a better society without money will not be easy.
The working class in the Russian Revolution found this out very quickly despite nationalising everything. The problem remained fundamentally that the rest of the world was using money so most trade that was necessary at the time had to keep involving money and that money could also be used to corrupt the ideals of the workers' movement as well as pay the forces fighting against the workers.
Money is the grease that enables the present system of production and distribution to work: it really does make the world go round. It is used to pay wages, buy commodities in shops and online, used by manufacturers to work out prices, used in differing currencies and for exchange rates, used to record bank accounts as well as being the basis of the commercial and financial empires that expand and dominate our lives. We all face money continually in our everyday lives and this keeps the capitalist system working and keeps us all in its thrall; it also demonstrates the absolute absurdity of the capitalists' financial system as you will see.
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