I was in synagogue on Yom Kippur when we heard news that a synagogue in Manchester had been attacked and two people murdered. Since then, the violence against Jews has escalated: synagogues in Finchley and Wembley have been firebombed, a Jewish-owned shop in Watford was set ablaze, and four Jewish community ambulances were destroyed in a targeted arson attack in Golders Green – the same neighbourhood where, more recently, two men were stabbed. In north London’s ‘bagel belt’ there is a genuine feeling of living under siege.
https://libcom.org/article/chapter-1-first-edition-capital-commodity-karl-marx
A commodity seems at first glance to be a self-evident, trivial thing. The analysis of it yields the insight that it is a very vexatious thing, full of metaphysical subtlety and theological perversities . . "
Karl Marx, Capital, Volume One, Part II: The Transformation of Money and Capital CHAPTER FOUR: THE GENERAL FORMULA FOR CAPITAL: "The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews . . ."
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