It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.

The entire socioeconomic system is based on production for profit and a growth imperative that cannot be sustained.

[Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him or others.

There is always room for Gramsci's "optimism of the will."

Before the 1970s, banks were banks. They did what banks were supposed to do in a state capitalist economy: they took unused funds from your bank account, for example, and transferred them to some potentially useful purpose like helping a family buy a home or send a kid to college.

Industrial production of meat makes a huge contribution to global warming.