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In essence, people trust the dollar because they trust the planning power of the US government – for as long the US's economic and military power seems unassailable, so too does its currency.

— Vulture Capitalism von Grace Blakeley (Seite 230)

Empire is , in this sense, about more than formal colonisation – it refers to all the many ways in which the world's most powerful capitalist institutions plan economic activity at the level of the world economy.

— Vulture Capitalism von Grace Blakeley (Seite 231)

Markets existed long before the emergence of capitalism, and state planning existed long before the emergence of socialism.

— Vulture Capitalism von Grace Blakeley (Seite 242)

The stability of capitalism relies on obedience – whether to bosses, bureaucrats or the police.

— Vulture Capitalism von Grace Blakeley (Seite 246)

As Marx wrote, providing Mike Cooley with the title of his later book, human beings are architects – not bees.

— Vulture Capitalism von Grace Blakeley (Seite 246)

Unless we socialise and democratise the ownership of society's most important resources – unless we dissolve the class divide between capital and labour itself – there can be no true democracy.

— Vulture Capitalism von Grace Blakeley (Seite 262)

Rather than a system of top-down control, true democratic socialism would be a project of collective liberation, which would allow workers to take control over production and citizen to take control over government.

— Vulture Capitalism von Grace Blakeley (Seite 270)

Most new technologies are therefore developed either to maximise private profits or to strengthen a state's military power.

— Vulture Capitalism von Grace Blakeley (Seite 269)