Thus neither in exchange between the economic commune and its members nor in exchange between the different communes can gold， which is "money by nature"， get to realise this its nature. Nevertheless， Herr Dühring assigns to it the function of money even in the "socialitarian"system. Hence， we must see if there is any other field in which its money function can be exercised. And this field exists. Herr Dühring gives everyone a right to "quantitatively equal consumption" {268}， but he cannot compel anyone to exercise it. On the contrary， he is proud that in the world he has created everyone can do what he likes with his money. He therefore cannot prevent some from setting aside a small money hoard， while others are unable to make ends meet on the wage paid to them. He even makes this inevitable by explicitly recognising in the right of inheritance that family property should be owned in common； whence comes also the obligation of the parents to maintain their children. But this makes a wide breach in quantitatively equal consumption. The bachelor lives like a lord， happy and content with his eight or twelve marks a day， while the widower with eight minor children finds it very difficult to manage on this sum. On the other hand， by accepting money in payment without any question， the commune leaves open the door to the possibility that this money may have been obtained otherwise than by the individual's own labour. Non olet . [122] The commune does not know where it comes from. But in this way all conditions are created permitting metallic money， which hitherto played the role of a mere labour certificate， to exercise its real money function. Both the Opportunity and the motive are present， on the one hand to form a hoard， and on the other to run into debt. The needy individual borrows from the individual who builds up a hoard. The borrowed money， accepted by the commune in payment for means of subsistence， once more becomes what it is in present-day society， the social incarnation of human labour， the real measure of labour， the general medium of circulation.
All the "laws and administrative regulations" {323} in the world are just as powerless against it as they are against the multiplication table or the chemical composition of water. And as the builder of the hoard is in a position to extort interest from people in need， usury is restored along with metallic money functioning as money.
Up to this point we have only considered the effects of a retention of metallic money within the field of operation of the Dühring economic commune. But outside this field the rest of the world， the profligate world， meanwhile carries on contentedly in the old accustomed way. On the world market gold and silver remain world money ， a general means of purchase and payment the absolute social embodiment of wealth. And this property of the precious metal gives the individual members of the economic communes a new motive to accumulate a hoard， get rich， exact usury； the motive to manoeuvre freely and independently with regard to the commune and beyond its borders， and to realise on the world market the private wealth which they have accumulated. The usurers are transformed into dealers in the medium of circulation， bankers， controllers of the medium of circulation and of world money， and thus into controllers of production， and thus into controllers of the means of production， even though these may still for many years be registered nominally as the property of the economic and trading communes. And so that hoarders and usurers， transformed into bankers， become the masters also of the economic and trading communes themselves.
Herr Dühring's "socialitarian system" is indeed quite fundamentally different from the "hazy notions" {D. K. G. 498} of the other socialists.
It has no other purpose but the recreation of high finance， under whose control and for whose pecuniary advantage it will labour valiantly -- if it should ever happen to be established and to hold together. Its one hope of salvation would lie in the amassers of hoards preferring， by means of their world money， to run away from the commune with all possible speed.
