The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

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.

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

Cities begin to use cultural production as a way to market their city as being unique and special. Of course, the problem with this is that much of culture is very easy to replicate. The uniqueness begins to disappear. Then, we have what I call the "Disneyfication" of society.

The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income.

There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.