Real wages for male workers in the United States are about what they were in the '60s.

The Second World War had really devastating effects for much of Europe. It really didn't take them very long to reconstruct state capitalist democracies because it was in people's heads. There were other parts of the world that were pretty much devastated and they couldn't do it; they didn't have the conceptions in their mind. A lot of it is human consciousness.

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.

Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.

The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.