others preach that our current problems arise out of arrant individualism and universal human greed

In such a situation it would be churlish not to acknowledge the forces that are in the vanguard of socio-ecological change

Capitalism did not supplant feudalism by way of some neat revolutionary transformation resting on the forces mobilised within only one of these spheres. It had to grow within the interstices of the old society and supplant it bit by bit

The result is a doubly serious lacuna. We do not well understand what happens where and why and how events here affect conditions elsewhere.

in desperation Napoleon III went to war against Bismarck's Germany and lost, and in the vacuum that followed arose the Paris Commune, one of the greatest revolutionary episodes in capitalist urban history

They initiated a powerful though inchoate movement to build another kind of world

other unruly elements, along with insalubrious industries

To the degree, for example, that states are reifications are mental conceptions

legitimation crises typically unfold at a different pace and rhythm to stock market crashes

Contemporary attempts to revive the communist hypothesis typically abjure state control and look to other forms of collective social organisation to displace market forces and capital accumulation as the basis for organising production and distribution