That form of privilege or interference with the Free Market in which one State-supported group monopolizes the coinage and thereby takes tribute (interest), direct or indirect, on all or most economic transactions.
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'Usury' is the Catholic-, the communist-, and the mutualist anarchist term for interest charged on loans.
Under political capitalism, the term 'usury' refers only to "excessive" rates of interest.
According to most theories of anarchism, usury cannot exist without the State.
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