"I say : money. It is clear, that in your imagination there immediately appeared pictures of real money of metal and paper. But that is not so. Money is now not that; real circulating coin is a true anachronism. If it still exists and circulates, then it is only thanks to atavism, only because it is convenient to maintain the illusion, a purely imaginary fiction for the present-day."

This passage is from a recorded conversation in 1938 during an interrogation.

You can read the rest for yourself here:

https://dn790002.ca.archive.org/0/items/REDSYMPHONYLandowsky_201903/RED%20SYMPHONY%20Landowsky.pdf