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.

What we're already doing is communism. The first step we have to make is to realize that we're already closer to it than we think.

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

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.

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

Free market ideology - does anyone know where it first comes from? It comes from medieval Islam, and specifically, Shari'a. Because Shari'a provided this commercial law that is independent from the state.

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