... itself, and in two ways: in so far as money functions as means of circulation, [the possibility of crisis lies in] the separation of purchase and sale and in so far as money functions as means of ... crisis tendencies of capitalist production relations with the abstract forms of crisis of SCP. Thus, the next step in the development of a theory of capitalist crisis is an analysis of the ... is the characteristic form of money crisis. If the crisis appears, therefore, because purchase and sale become separated, it becomes a money crisis, as soon as money has developed as means of...