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.

Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.

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 only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

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

Marx set out to resolve the contradictions and to correct the errors in classical political economy. In this he thought he had succeeded very well. Judging by the sound and the fury of the controversy surrounding his interpretations, he either succeeded too well or deluded himself to the success of his enterprise.

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