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“Let us assume that a man gets half his income in the form of interest-bearing securities and half in the form of money; and that he is in the habit of saving three-quarters of his income, and does ...”
“If we compare two static economic systems, which differ in no way from one another except that in one there is twice as much money as in the other, it appears that the purchasing power of the monet...”
“If time could run backward, like a film in reverse, we would see this mess reassemble itself into lush green hills and moss-covered ledges of limestone. The streams would run back up the hills to t...”
“The role played by man in production always consists solely in combining his personal forces with the forces of Nature in such a way that the cooperation leads to some particular desired arrangemen...”
“The very earth that sustains us is being destroyed to fuel injustice. An economy that grants personhood to corporations but denies it to the more-than-human beings”
“Ruined land was accepted as the collateral damage of progress.”
“The phenomenon of money presupposes an economic order in which production is based on division of labour and in which private property consists not only in goods of the first order (consumption goo...”
“The creek that was once a fishery for Atlantic salmon, a swimming hole for kids, and a focal point of community life now runs as brown as chocolate milk. Allied Chemical and its successors deny any...”
“Fiscal considerations have led to the promulgation of a theory that attributes to the minting authority the right to regulate the purchasing power of the coinage as it thinks fit. For just as long ...”
“All weve got left to protect here is a system thats set up to promote the meanest possibilities in human nature and make them look good.”
“[..] the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.”
“The function of money is to facilitate the business of the market by acting as a common medium of exchange.”
“For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted.”
“Juliet is so beautiful," Mr. Buckmaster agreed, "that her being a maid is a reflection on capitalism.”
“But I need to remember that the grief is the settlers as well. They too will never walk in a tallgrass prairie where sunflowers dance with goldfinches. Their children have also lost the chance to s...”
“We have constructed an artifice, a Potemkin village of an ecosystem where we perpetrate the illusion that the things we consume have just fallen off the back of Santas sleigh, not been ripped from ...”
“Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity”
“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
“The notion that capital as an infinitely ramified system of exploitation, an abstract, intangible but overpowering logic, a process without a subject or a subject without a face poses formidable ...”
“The only thing "free" about so-called free time is that it doesn't cost the boss anything. Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering ...”
