If you say "the economy," you show you're stupid. There's no such thing as the economy. There is not a unity between the forces of production and the relations of production.
Christopher HitchensAllow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.
Christopher HitchensThe obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold is durable, gold is rare, gold is even (in certain very peculiar circumstances) convertible. To believe in thrift, solidity and soundness is to believe in some way in the properties of gold.
Christopher HitchensMost of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune.
Christopher Hitchens