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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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