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.

Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like.

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

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

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.

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.