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Imagination is usually nothing but the search for middle run profits by those to whom short run channels are blocked. When

The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy.

Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.

The employment rates are in very bad shape. We vastly underestimate the unemployment

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.

That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

Uncertainty is wondrous, and.. certainty, were it to be real, would be moral death.

Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force.

The world system is coming to the structural crisis

We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.

Historical capitalism is a materialist civilization.

The primary ideology that operated to create, socialize, and reproduce them was not the ideology of racism. It was that of universalism.