David McNally Quotes

A society that has moved beyond commodification is one that has embraced the most thoroughgoing radical democracy in all spheres of social life.

Behind their fluffy rhetoric about free trade and free markets lurks a hostility toward freedom for ordinary people — and a love affair with police and prisons.

"Free trade" is a policy imposed on the weakest and evaded by the most powerful.

In short, the rules of behaviour in capitalist society systematically produce irrational consequences.

Once capitalist classes learn to live with unions — which they generally do reluctantly, only after efforts to crush them have failed — they then attempt to co-opt organized labour. They do so by courting a "special relationship" with union leaders who, as their organizations become larger and more complex, typically assume the role of full time union functionaries.

The neoliberal utopia of unrestrained capitalism is being created by a war against the poor and the commons. In fact, the "new enclosures" are a sign that the struggles that marked the birth of capitalism are still very much alive.

The fundamental truth about globalization — that it represents freedom for capital and unfreedom for labour — is especially clear where global migrants are concerned.

Under , in other words, the right of corporations to bring thousands of tons of hazardous waste into local communities overrides the right of residents to protect their health.

Contrary to liberal myth, Smith was not an apologist for capitalists. He argued in fact, that capitalists always seek "to deceive and oppress the public" by conspiring to inflate their prices and profits.

Globalization is thus also about global commodification of labour; it is about — global proletarianization — the creation of a world working class for capital to exploit.

Social movements will not develop if they refuse to name and define alternative possibilities.

Corporate globalization and the economic agreements designed to entrench it have little to do with trade — and all but the most ignorant neo-liberal pundits surely know this too.

Put baldly, globalization has been nothing less than a mechanism for a massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich — in other words, exactly what it is was designed to be.

"Free trade" is a slogan used to attack practices designed by competitor economies to protect their own interests.

In many respects, the Second World War was a continuation of the First, a conflict triggered by the mismatch between industrial power and imperial reach.