The difference between capitalism and feudalism is that under capitalism, they make money directly through wages, manufacturing, and commerce and under feudalism, it's directly through juro-political means.

But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic project at all, but a political project, designed to devastate the imagination, and willing - with it's cumbersome securitization and insane military projects - to destroy the capitalist order itself if that's what it took to make it seem inevitable.

I came to the conclusion that most people in America would really like to be able to get a job where they think they're doing something noble and nice and good and it isn't just for the money. But the reason they hate what they call the cultural elite is that they see it as a class that's grabbed all the jobs where you can get paid to do something that isn't just for the money - if it's art, if it's charity, if it's intellectual, if it's political, whatever it might be.

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.

States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.