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

Not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use. For this is the only means that capitalism has at its disposal to achieve the level of devaluation now required. The idea is dreadful in its implications. What better reason could there be to declare that it is time for capitalism to be gone, to give way to some saner mode of production?

If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, then capitalism is not long for this world.

Skills that are monopolizable are anathema to capital.

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

Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

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