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

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

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.

The ultimate Form of devaluation is military confrontation and global war.

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

Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained?