Occupation: Professor Birth: October 31, 1935
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space..
The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city. It i….
Money must exist before it can be turned into capital..
My advice to everybody would be to go out as much as possible and deal with social inequality and environmental degradation because these issues are ….
What kind of city we wish to build should reflect our personal wishes and needs..
People must get active; go outside; get moving. This is a crucial time. You know, massive wealth and capital haven't budged one bit, so far. We have ….
Cities begin to use cultural production as a way to market their city as being unique and special. Of course, the problem with this is that much of c….
Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequen….
Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value..
The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city..
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights..
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour..
Neoliberalization has not been very effective in revitalizing global capital accumulation, but it has succeeded remarkably well in restoring, or in s….
Capitalism will never fall on its own. It will have to be pushed. The accumulation of capital will never cease. It will have to be stopped. The capit….
Money could not be converted into capital if wage labour did not exist..
What sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically dominates, thou….
The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order b….
The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake….
The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds popu….
Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself..
We're supposed to live under capitalism, and capitalism is supposed to be competitive so you would expect that capitalists and entrepreneurs would li….