If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.

Large numbers of people are broken from the notion that the system is working for people, that the system is just or humane or peaceful.

One question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don't have a knee-jerk kind of 1930s thing about we must build the unions and that's the way to the future. I'm writing this book right now called Pallin' Around, and the subtitle is: "Talking to the Tea Party." And frankly I find talking to the Tea Party exhilarating, I love it.

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan's home.

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.