US wars are going to be against much weaker enemies. And they have to be won quickly and decisively before a popular reaction develops.

In the mid to late nineteenth century, the gun manufacturers recognized that they had a limited market. Remember that this is a capitalist society, you've got to expand your market. They were selling guns to the military. That's a pretty limited market. What about all the rest of the people? So what started was all kinds of fantastic stories about Wyatt Earp and the gunmen and the Wild West, how exciting it was to have these guys with guns defending themselves against all sorts of things.

If scientists and scholars were to become "collectively self-organised and consciously activist" today, they would probably devote themselves to service to state and private power. Those who have different goals should (and do) become organized and activist.

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

I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.

I think there are real possibilities of reaching out to many of the Trump voters, those who voted for Obama believing his rhetoric.

If [Barack] Obama or the boss or the newspapers or anyone else tells you they're doing this, that, or the other thing, dismiss it or assume the opposite is true, which it often is.