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

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

Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

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

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

Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.

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