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

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.

Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.

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.

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

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

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.