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.

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

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.

The best way to think about anarchism is as a combination of three levels. On the one hand, the sort of instinctual revulsion against forms of inequality in power; on the other hand, a reappraisal of what one is already doing in egalitarian relations; and then the projection of these principles on all sorts of relations.

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

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

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.