Individual capitalists, in short, necessarily act in such a way as to de-stabilize capitalism.

The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals. Capital is, after all, money used in a certain way, and is by no means identical with all money uses.

But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.

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

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 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?

Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.