Quote: What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.
. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man and turns them into commodities
. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange
. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.
Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question, originally published in 1844.