" The individual', Marx suggests, consequently 'carries his social power, as well as his bond with society, in his pocket' (Grundrisse, p. 157). This social power is 'alienable without restriction or conditions', and it can become, therefore, the 'private power of private persons' (Capital, vol. 1, pp. 110, 132). Greed for that social power leads to appropriation, stealing, hoarding, accumulation — all become possible. Marx goes to considerable lengths, particularly in the Grundrisse (see particularly pp. 145-72), to describe the disruptive effects of monetization, through social power relations, on traditional societies. "

― David Harvey , The Limits to Capital