Karl Marx wrote in 'Zur Judenfrage' that the bill of exchange is the god of the Jew.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The sentence 'The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew' appears verbatim in Marx's Zur Judenfrage (1844), confirmed by the Marxists Internet Archive text and by several quoting sources. The claim drops the word 'real' from the original, which is a minor paraphrase, and the extraction faithfully reflects the passage the post quotes.
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… Money is the estranged essence of man's work and man's existence, and this alien essence dominates the Jew, and he worships it. The god of the Jews has become the secularized, has become secularized, and has become the god of the world. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only the illusory bill of exchange. The view of nature attained under the domination of private property and money is a real contempt for and practical debasement of nature. In the Jewish religion, nature exists, it's true, but it exists only in their imagination. …
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Supports. The Marxists Internet Archive edition of 'On the Jewish Question' contains the sentence 'The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange.'[1]
Supports. Academic work on Ludwig Börne quotes Marx's Zur Judenfrage as stating that 'the bill of exchange is the real God of the Jews,' and identifies it as a familiar antisemitic topos.[2]
Supports. The Philosophers' Magazine reproduces the passage from Zur Judenfrage, including 'The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew,' and discusses it as an antisemitic statement.[3]
Context. Wikipedia and other commentary note that the essay is a polemic against Bruno Bauer about political emancipation, and that Wendy Brown reads such passages as a critique of liberal rights rather than of Judaism. This context does not change whether the sentence was written.[4][5]
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- 1On The Jewish Question by Karl Marx - Marxists Internet Archivemarxists.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 2Ludwig Börne, Jewish Messianism, and the Politics of Moneyacademic.oup.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3Karl Marx's Radical Antisemitism - The Philosophers' Magazinephilosophersmag.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4On the Jewish Question - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 5An exchange of letters on Marx and anti-Semitismwsws.org · not rated · cited for: context
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