David McNally Quotes

What was it, then, about the development of capitalism that gave rise to modern racial ideology?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

"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.