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.

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.

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.

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

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.

Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it.