Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.

The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.

Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism, and those who believe in a planned socialism uncontaminated by private profit-seeking. Both are bankrupt. The future, like the present and the past, belongs to mixed economies in which public and private are braided together in one way or another. But how? That is the problem for everybody today, but especially for people on the left.