Ah, the economic and philosophical manuscript of 1844...
I think it's much easier to understand in context... and the context is rather important here, since Marx is expounding a passage of Goethe's Faust that reads:
“What, man! confound it, hands and feet
And head and backside, all are yours!
And what we take while life is sweet,
Is that to be declared not ours?
Six stallions, say, I can afford,
Is not their strength my property?
I tear along, a sporting lord,
As if their legs belonged to me.”
(Mephistoles, Faust I, scene 4)
You can read the whole manuscript in context here:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...ipts/power.htm
and here you can read the original:
http://trotsky.org/deutsch/archiv/ma...l/3-4_geld.htm
The German version reads much better, and actually, 160 years old German isn't so much different to transfer than more recent German - and the translation - expecially out of context - seems to be much less clear to me than the original.