The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism is in crisis precisely because, in pursuing the endless accumulation of capital, it is beginning to approximate that state of being Adam Smith asserted was 'natural' to man but which has never historically existed. The 'propensity [of humanity] to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another' has entered into domains and zones previously untouched, and the pressure to expand commodification is relatively unchecked.

The world system is coming to the structural crisis

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.

We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.

I am suggesting that there is, and always has been, a rather high correlation between ethnicity and occupation/economic role throughout the various time-space zones of historical capitalism.