If you imagine that everything is an exchange, then we're supposed to just transact and walk away. If we haven't walked away and we still have a relationship, it's because there's a debt.

We need each other to do things that we can't do for ourselves. If we are intimately connected with each other, we just give things to each other; if we don't know each other we find another way to handle it. If you think about it, each according to his or her abilities and each according to his or her needs is sort of the same thing as supply and demand.

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

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

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.

All societies are based on a sort of minimum level of communism. Otherwise, you couldn't have any social relations at all.

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