All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.

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.

What sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically dominates, though ... there are times in which the territorial logic comes to the fore. But this then poses a crucial question: how can the territorial logics of power, which tend to be awkwardly fixed in space, respond to the open spatial dynamics of endless capital accumulation? And what does endless capital accumulation imply for the territorial logics of power?

The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.

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

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals. Capital is, after all, money used in a certain way, and is by no means identical with all money uses.