Even In The Most Market-obsessed Society, We're

Student Loans Are Destroying The Imagination Of Youth. If There’s A Way Of A Society Committing Mass Suicide, What Better Way Than To Take All The Youngest, Most Energetic, Creative, Joyous People In Your Society And Saddle Them With, Like $50,000 Of Debt So They Have To Be Slaves? There Goes Your Music. There Goes Your Culture. There Goes Everything New That Would Pop Out. And In A Way, This Is What’s Happened To Our Society. We’re A Society That Has Lost Any Ability To Incorporate The Interesting, Creative And Eccentric People.

Now, We're Used To Thinking Of Communism As Being Once-upon-a-time-all-things-were-owned-in-common, Maybe-someday-this-will-come-again. And People Agree That There Is A Sort Of Epic Narrative Going On Here. I Think We Should Just Throw This Narrative Out, It's Irrelevant Anyway, And Who Cares Who Owns Things? I Don't. You Know, We All Own The White House. So What? I Still Can't Go In, Right?

Neoliberalism Isn't An Economic Program - It's A Political Program Designed To Produce Hopelessness And Kill Any Future Alternatives.

Within A Capitalist Corporation, Someone Says, "lend Me A Wrench," And Someone Asks, "yeah, What Do I Get?" You Assume That The Idea Of Each According To His Or Her Abilities, Each According To His Or Her Needs - In Solving A Problem - Is Actually The Only Thing That Works. And In Situations Of Disaster, There Are Often Communistic Notions Of Improvisation, Where You Basically Exchange Hierarchies And All Of A Sudden All Those Things That Are Luxuries That You Can't Afford, You Have Them In An Emergency.

What About Precarious Labor? It's Actually Not The Most Efficient Form Of Labor At All. They Were Much More Efficient When They Had Loyalty To Their Workers And People Were Allowed To Be Creative And Contribute - You Know That What Precarious Labor Does Is That It's The Best Weapon Ever Made To Depoliticize Labor. They're Always Putting The Political In Front Of The Economic.