"At its heart, this book is about where this new left has come from, and where it might be going."

“In many respects, the Second World War was a continuation of the First, a conflict triggered by the mismatch between industrial power and imperial reach.”

“Globalization is thus also about global commodification of labour; it is about — global proletarianization — the creation of a world working class for capital to exploit.”

“Put baldly, globalization has been nothing less than a mechanism for a massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich — in other words, exactly what it is was designed to be.”

“Contrary to liberal myth, Smith was not an apologist for capitalists. He argued in fact, that capitalists always seek "to deceive and oppress the public" by conspiring to inflate their prices and profits.”

“The suffering inflicted by this present order invariably produces a struggle to overcome it.”

“The Greek philosopher Plato may have rejected the idea that "might makes right" some 2,500 years ago, but America and its allies today make it the cornerstone of foreign policy.”