It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization..

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do..

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free..

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault..

We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil e….

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist..

Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives..

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it..

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves..

I would like, then, to end by putting in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they aren’t hurting anyone. Insofar as the time they are ….

Anarchism is surprisingly effective in solving actual problems largely because anarchists have thought a lot about solving actual problems on a micro….

There are markets extending from Mali, Indonesia, way outside the purview of any one government which operated under civil laws, so contracts weren't….

The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the worl….

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 communis….

Free market ideology - does anyone know where it first comes from? It comes from medieval Islam, and specifically, Shari'a. Because Shari'a provided ….

In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe..

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commerc….

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens - like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It's never entirely clear wh….

If you want to minimize the possibility of unexpected breakthroughs, tell people they will receive no resources at all unless they spend the bulk of ….

If your father is an air-conditioner repairman from Nebraska, its conceivable that you might become a CEO, but you can't imagine being the drama crit….

Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local vari….