AO #93

Marx said that Luther's merit was to have determined the essence of religion, no longer on the side of the object, but as an interior religiosity; that the merit of Adam Smith and Ricardo was to have determined the essence or nature of wealth no longer as an objective nature, but as an abstract and deterritorialized subjective essence, THE ACTIVITY OF PRODUCTION IN GENERAL. But as this determination develops under the condition of capitalism, they objectify the essence all over again, they alienate and reterritotialize it, this time in the form of the private ownership of the means of production. (270)