What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence. - David Graeber

Who was the first man to look at a house full of objects and to immediately assess them only in terms of what he could trade them in for in the market likely to have been? Surely he can only have been a thief.

Slavery is the ultimate form of being ripped from one's context, and thus from all the social relationships that make one a human being.

What I have been trying to do in this book is not so much to propose a vision of what, precisely, the next age will be like, but to throw open perspectives, enlarge our sense of possibilities; to begin to ask what it would mean to start thinking on a breadth and with a grandeur appropriate to the times.