A Debt ... Is Just An Exchange

All Societies Are Based On A Sort Of Minimum Level Of Communism. Otherwise, You Couldn't Have Any Social Relations At All.

If You Imagine That Everything Is An Exchange, Then We're Supposed To Just Transact And Walk Away. If We Haven't Walked Away And We Still Have A Relationship, It's Because There's A Debt.

The Best Way To Think About Anarchism Is As A Combination Of Three Levels. On The One Hand, The Sort Of Instinctual Revulsion Against Forms Of Inequality In Power; On The Other Hand, A Reappraisal Of What One Is Already Doing In Egalitarian Relations; And Then The Projection Of These Principles On All Sorts Of Relations.

But In The Years Since The Neoliberal Project Really Has Been Stripped Down To What Was Always Its Essence: Not An Economic Project At All, But A Political Project, Designed To Devastate The Imagination, And Willing - With It's Cumbersome Securitization And Insane Military Projects - To Destroy The Capitalist Order Itself If That's What It Took To Make It Seem Inevitable.

If You Look At History, There Seems To Be A Regular Pattern: The Country With The Most Powerful Military Also Happens To Be The One With The World Trade Currency. That Gives Them An Enormous Economic Advantage, Which Causes Goods To Flow Into Their Country.