Meaning of moneylord | Babel Free

Definitions

A person who lends money in exchange for interest; usurer.

slang

Examples

“The owner of land⟳ and the owner of money let⟳ or lent their respective instruments of production and commerce to farmers and merchants, who then surrendered a part of their profits or gains to the landlord and moneylord. The payment to the former was called rent⟳, the payment to the other was called interest⟳.”

“Human beings never have⟳ the power to command satisfactions from each other except in exchange⟳ for equivalent satisfactions produced by them, or by the exercise of tribute-compelling power, which has its ultimate type⟳ in the chattel slave owner. The normal law — the law of human association — distributes exertions to producers thru immediate personal services, and the exchange⟳ of commodities. There is in nature no room for either landlord or moneylord (called capitalist).”

“The February meeting should be a Parliament of the people assembled to do that which will most effectually oppose⟳ the encroachments and usurpations of the moneylord, the landlord and the lord of party.”

“Not only does the moneylord have⟳ his headquarters there [in the city]; it is also the natural home of the "satellites of rent⟳" — the experts who direct⟳ the artificial economy of cities and the "white collar armies" who carry⟳ out their commands.”

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