If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

We're supposed to live under capitalism, and capitalism is supposed to be competitive so you would expect that capitalists and entrepreneurs would like competition. Well, it turns out that capitalists do everything they can to avoid competition.

Capital creates space-time.

Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

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. It is, moreover, a common rather than an individual right since this transformation inevitably depends upon the exercise of a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization. The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

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