The working poor are the people suffering out subprime mortgages and fatal loans and more and more of our money - you know, capitalism is operated by extracting money, not so much directly being paid.

Even in the most market-obsessed society, we're still spending half of our time on something other than just getting cash.

Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

There are markets extending from Mali, Indonesia, way outside the purview of any one government which operated under civil laws, so contracts weren't, except on trust. So they have this free market ideology the moment they have markets operating outside the purview of the states, as prior to that markets had really mainly existed as a side effect of military operations.

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we already live communism and anarchism in a million forms everyday.

I think we need to think of capitalism as a very bad way of organizing communism. Much of what we do is already communism, so just expand it.