You can't have cutthroat competition when there's no one stopping you from actually cutting each other's throats. In order to build up trust we also have to think about each other's needs and it creates an entirely different dynamic.

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

In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens - like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It's never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed to believe that before the Athenians, it never really occurred to anyone, anywhere, to gather all the members of their community in order to make joint decisions in a way that gave everyone equal say?

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

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.

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.