It was this wave of reforms that turned China into the sweatshop of the world, the preferred location for contract factories for virtually every mult… - Naomi Klein

Indeed a great deal of the work of deep social change involves having debates during which new stories can be told to replace the ones that have failed us. Because if we are to have any hope of making the kind of civilizational leap required of this fateful decade, we will need to start believing, once again, that humanity is not hopelessly selfish and greedy—the image ceaselessly sold to us by everything from reality shows to neoclassical economics. p. 461

...extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves. In a way, it had happened already to the antiwar movement.

It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when those elites were enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s. p. 18