Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

Not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use. For this is the only means that capitalism has at its disposal to achieve the level of devaluation now required. The idea is dreadful in its implications. What better reason could there be to declare that it is time for capitalism to be gone, to give way to some saner mode of production?

Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist.

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.

The accumulation of capital involves the expansion of value over time.

The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.

What kind of city we wish to build should reflect our personal wishes and needs.