“Ronald Reagan was an asshole, and it’s high time liberals stopped trying quixotically to score cleverness points by declaring him a better asshole than the assholes the Republicans are now.”—Dale Carrico

“Our problem is not that we don’t have enough stuff — it’s that we don’t have enough ways for people to work and prove that they deserve this stuff.”—Douglas Rushkoff

“Having a cell phone and laptop doesn’t magically pay my rent or give me meaningful decision-making power in my workplace. Power relationships count regardless of the shiny toys involved. I want more than improvement in material conditions. I want genuine liberation.”—Summerspeaker

“An English friend of mine once said, when he encountered the annual cost of attending a US uni, ‘Thank god I didn’t have to mortgage my future just to have one’. Those happy days are now, apparently, over.”—Priyanka Nandy

“You add new lanes, even MORE people will drive, putting us right back at square one! Instead of throwing tons of money at a short-term solution, why not spend it on improving bus and rail service and encouraging carpooling? Oh, and get more highway patrol officers to crack down on these violent drivers who pose safety threats to the rest of us.”—Jean-Paul Wong

“So there’ll be a lot less paid work available, and a lot of stuff we’re still paying for will be either free or very cheap. But if you put it all together in the form of a Venn diagram, to what extent will the receipt of income from the remaining paid work overlap with the need to expend money for the remaining goods and services with a money price?”—Kevin Carson

“We need to address the core facts: these corporations, even if they were unable to compete in the electoral arena, would still remain control of society.”—AnonOps Communications

“Party conferences are irrelevant. The private sector runs the world. Let’s start sending thousands of press to their meetings.”—Kate B

“This frugal economy will be wishful thinking unless a way of encouraging it is created. The underlying issue is how gradual, smooth, and thus bearable, the transition will be. Will it encourage the cooperation that has always sustained cultural evolution, or will it foster the Darwinian hell of a survival of the most aggressive?”—Franco Iacomella

“There have been minor exceptions, such as the French ban on niqabs and burqas. Liberals have tried to turn this into a human rights issue, that we should have the right to wear whatever we want. First of all, this is an extremely disingenuous position for liberals to take, since they support a capitalist system which most definitely does not give people the right to wear whatever they want; if they were serious about such a position, they would be advocating a ban on corporate-imposed clothing and uniforms as well.”—François Tremblay

“Part of the problem is that capitalist economics have invented a fictional type of person, whose wants are limitless: someone who always wants more and more of everything and so whose needs could only satisfied if resources were limitless too. Needless to say, such an individual has never existed. In reality, our wants are not limitless — people have diverse tastes and we rarely want everything available nor do we want more of a thing than is necessary to satisfies our needs.”—Alan MacSimoin

“Honestly, all the ads front-loaded onto my new DVD were so absolutely captivating I didn’t even notice that I couldn’t fast forward through them anymore, I was just drinking in every second of sparkling advertizing content in a kind rapture spoiled only by a slow-growing dread that all too soon the commercials would end and I would be left with nothing to watch but the actual goddamn film I actually paid my goddamn money to watch in my goddamn home on my own goddamn time in the goddamn first place, goddamn it!”—Dale Carrico

“For information to be free, the coordinates of the information must be free.”—James Alexander Levy

“There is a difference between saving and making money when you’re unemployed. Once you’re already rich, saving money and making money is the same thing, but for people who are on the bottom or even in the middle classes, saving money doesn’t help you if you don’t have the money to save in the first place.”—Jaron Lanier

“The elimination of corporate tyranny is a prerequisite for solving all other social and economic anomalies which exist in this world.”—Randolph Greer