David Harvey

"Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities."

"But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained."

"When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate."

"The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time."

"The inner logic that governs the laws of motion of capitalism is cold, ruthless and inexorable, responsive only to the law of value. Yet value is a social relation, a product of a particular historica…"

"The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times."

"Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism."

"Not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put to use. For this is the only means that capitalism has at its disposal to achieve the lev…"