David McNally Quotes

To make history — to change the actual course of world events — is intoxicating, inspiring, and life-transforming.

The suffering inflicted by this present order invariably produces a struggle to overcome it.

At its heart, this book is about where this new left has come from, and where it might be going.

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

When history moves — really moves — it does so in great convulsive jolts.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Common wealth is in the process of being transferred from the public domain to the private sector.

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

Genuine growth is always dialogical — it requires engagement in a dynamic, developing, and open-ended dialogue.

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.

The Greek philosopher Plato may have rejected the idea that "might makes right" some 2,500 years ago, but America and its allies today make it the cornerstone of foreign policy.