Revolutionary Constituencies Always Involve A

Now, We're Used To Thinking Of Communism As Being Once-upon-a-time-all-things-were-owned-in-common, Maybe-someday-this-will-come-again. And People Agree That There Is A Sort Of Epic Narrative Going On Here. I Think We Should Just Throw This Narrative Out, It's Irrelevant Anyway, And Who Cares Who Owns Things? I Don't. You Know, We All Own The White House. So What? I Still Can't Go In, Right?

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.

Direct Action Is, Ultimately, The Defiant Insistence On Acting As If One Is Already Free.

Aristotle [would] Probably Conclude Most Americans, For All Intents And Purposes, Are Slaves.

States Created Markets. Markets Require States. Neither Could Continue Without The Other, At Least, In Anything Like The Forms We Would Recognize Today.