What sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically dominates, though ... there are times in which the territorial logic comes to the fore. But this then poses a crucial question: how can the territorial logics of power, which tend to be awkwardly fixed in space, respond to the open spatial dynamics of endless capital accumulation? And what does endless capital accumulation imply for the territorial logics of power?

If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained?

The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.

The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have to be pushed. The accumulation of capital will never cease. It will have to be stopped. The capitalist class will never willingly surrender its power. It will have to be dispossessed.

The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.