"But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system."

“In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.”

“Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.”

“The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.”

“In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under this designation, measures to protect national cultural industries, for example, have been ruled unacceptable infringements of "free trade.”

“My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless.”

“How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine.”