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

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

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.

Look at labor policy. What's the point of making everybody work too much? It's not very useful. It is destroying the planet, actually. But it's great at keeping people off the streets.

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

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

The fascinating thing about standard economic stories is exactly that: they assume that everybody wants that kind of closure. That all human relations are forms of exchange, because if everything is an exchange then it's true that we're both equals. We walk up, I give you something, you give me something, and we walk away. Or I give you something, you don't give me something right now, and you owe me. So if we have any ongoing relationships at all, it's because somebody is in debt.