"Nobody believes any more in a moral revival of capitalism. The Weberian attempt to prevent it from being confounded with greed has finally failed, as it has more than ever become synonymous with corruption." -- Wolfgang Streeck

"Every human society must justify its inequalities... unless reasons for them are found, the whole political and social edifice stands in danger of collapse" - Thomas Piketty

"To say that we want wages for our housework is to expose the fact that housework is already money for capital, that capital has made and makes money out of our cooking, smiling, fucking" - Silvia Federici

"Every Cadillac produced at any time means fewer lives in the future... Future Generations are not, simply because they cannot be, present on today's market"- Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

"While they received a low wage, they were compensated in part by a sort of public and psychological wage. They were given public deference and titles of courtesy because they were white." - W.E.B. Dubois

"One of the most important functions of fascism, as typified by the Nazi system, was to remove capitalist objections to full employment." - Paul Sweezy aka Sweezy F. Baby

"There was nothing natural about laissez-faire: free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course" - Karl Polanyi

"Are we aware of our obligations to a mob? It is the mob that labor in your fields and serve in your houses-that man your navy, and recruit your army-that have enabled you to defy all the world, and can also defy you when neglect and calamity have driven them to despair"- Byron

"Most people are too lazy to read stout tomes such as Das Kapital and hence a slim little pamphlet such as this has a much more rapid effect" - Engels
"The continual newspaper muck annoys. It takes a lot of work, disperses my efforts, and in the final analysis is nothing" - Marx

"The tramp comes with the locomotive, and almshouses and prisons are as surely the marks of 'material progress' as are costly dwellings, rich warehouses, and magnificent churches" -- Henry George

"Berlin is the most repulsive place... cold, ugly, massive--a real barracks, and the charming Prussians with their arrogance as if each one of them had been made to swallow the very stick with which he had got his daily beating" - Rosa Luxemburg

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Dave Jones says it’s not so bad and the assumptions behind rising oil demand are incredibly flimsy. I should have read the full report first bsky.app/profile/clea...

This is from the FT coverage of the new IEA world energy outlook www.ft.com/content/8696...

It’s a brilliant overview. As good as The Worldly Philosophers

Small Modular Residences?

Wealthy Americans were about to moderately inconvenienced. There was simply no choice