Even In The Most Market-obsessed

If You Look At History, There Seems To Be A Regular Pattern: The Country With The Most Powerful Military Also Happens To Be The One With The World Trade Currency. That Gives Them An Enormous Economic Advantage, Which Causes Goods To Flow Into Their Country.

The Question We Should Be Asking Is Not Why People Are Sometimes Cruel, Or Even Why A Few People Are Usually Cruel (all Evidence Suggests True Sadists Are An Extremely Small Proportion Of The Population Overall), But How We Have Come To Create Institutions That Encourage Such Behavior And That Suggest Cruel People Are In Some Ways Admirable-or At Least As Deserving Of Sympathy As Those They Push Around.

It Affects Every Aspect Of Our Lives, Is Often Said To Be The Root Of All Evil, And The Analysis Of The World That It Makes Possible - What We Call 'the Economy' - Is So Important To Us That Economists Have Become The High Priests Of Our Society. Yet, Oddly, There Is Absolutely No Consensus Among Economists About What Money Really Is.

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.

We Don't Live In A Capitalist Totality. Capitalism Couldn't Survive As A Totality Anyway. We Live In This Complex System And We Already Live Communism And Anarchism In A Million Forms Everyday.