Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called natural scarcities and on occasion, as Marx might put it, these barriers can be transformed into absolu — David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism

It is not wonderful. It is an ugly world. Not like this one. Anarres is all dusty and dry hills. All meager, all dry. An — Ursula K. Le Guin

$The double consequence of artifice--to project sentience out onto the made world and in turn to make sentience itself into a complex living artifact--is thus fractured, neatly fractured, into two sepa — Elaine Scarry The Body in Pain$

Money is to an economy as nutrition is to the human body. When central bankers ignore that relationship by providing mor — Said Elias Dawlabani, MEMEnomics: The Next-Generation Economic System

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one — Native American Saying

Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons? — Arundhati Roy, Capitalism: A Ghost Story

The diseconomies of capitalism are treated as the public's responsibility. Corporate America skims the cream and leaves — Michael Parenti, Against Empire

Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will no — Arundhati Roy, Capitalism: A Ghost Story

Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but f — James Clavell, Shōgun

The winner takes all mindset at the root of capitalism is a poison if left unchecked. That’s not to say capitalism is ba — James Morcan, The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle — James Morcan, The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy

Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinenc — Paul Lafargue, The Right to Be Lazy

The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid. — Julie Rivkin, Literary Theory: An Anthology

Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called natural scarcities and on occasion, as Marx might put it, these barriers can be transformed into absolute contradictions and crises.

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