The atrocities in Cambodia are a direct and understandable response to the violence of the imperial system.

You win by struggle, and that requires understanding and serious analysis of the options and the circumstances, and then you can do a lot.

Control is the source of strategic power.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

Take Google - I can use it, you can use it, anyone else can use it, but we all know its designed so that private power can influence significantly how you access it.

If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. If you were in a bar downtown, they might have different words, but if you're an educated person what you use are complicated words like "conspiracy theory" or "Marxist." It's a way of pushing unpleasant questions off the agenda so that we can continue in our own happy ideology.

We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous.