There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an architect like Moshe Safdie that they are tired of it, then can philosophical thinking be far behind?

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

The net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.

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.

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

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.

Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.