Whats immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

Markets cant think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.