Aristotle [would] Probably Conclude Most

If History Shows Anything, It Is That There's No Better Way To Justify Relations Founded On Violence, To Make Such Relations Seem Moral, Than By Reframing Them In The Language Of Debt—above All, Because It Immediately Makes It Seem That It's The Victim Who's Doing Something Wrong.

You Can't Have Cutthroat Competition When There's No One Stopping You From Actually Cutting Each Other's Throats. In Order To Build Up Trust We Also Have To Think About Each Other's Needs And It Creates An Entirely Different Dynamic.

I Think We Need To Think Of Capitalism As A Very Bad Way Of Organizing Communism. Much Of What We Do Is Already Communism, So Just Expand It.

But In The Years Since The Neoliberal Project Really Has Been Stripped Down To What Was Always Its Essence: Not An Economic Project At All, But A Political Project, Designed To Devastate The Imagination, And Willing - With It's Cumbersome Securitization And Insane Military Projects - To Destroy The Capitalist Order Itself If That's What It Took To Make It Seem Inevitable.

One Of The Fairly Interesting Things About Money Is That It Makes Certain Things Possible That Wouldn't Be Possible Otherwise - It Doesn't Make Them Inevitable. Hence The Strange Blindness Of Economists To What Would Actually Happen When One Does Exchange Things If There Isn't Money In Such Contexts.