Profil

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)

Neoliberal hegemony is perhaps strongest, and hardest to challenge, at the level of the world economy.

— Vulture Capitalism von Grace Blakeley (Seite 283)

The choice is whether the planning that inevitably does take place in any complex social system is democratic or oligarchic.

— Vulture Capitalism von Grace Blakeley (Seite 293)

The greatest barrier to the emergence and spread of these movements is not the overwhelming power of capital. It is the conviction, held by so many millions of people, that change is impossible.

— Vulture Capitalism von Grace Blakeley (Seite 295)

Intimität zu lernen ist eine Beziehungskompetenz, die uns den Wert der Selbsterkenntnis lehrt.

— Männer, Männlichkeit und Liebe von bell hooks (Seite 158)