Paul Mason Quotes

#1. When the people decide to live, Destiny will obey, Darkness will disappear And chains will be broken.

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#2. Across the globe, one billion people live in slums: that is, one in seven human beings.

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#3. A track on iTunes costs next to zero to store on Apple's server, and next to zero to transmit to my computer. Whatever it cost the record company to produce (in terms of artist fees and marketing costs) it costs me 99p simply because it's unlawful to copy it for free. The

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#4. It is as if, in response to the creation of digital networks, we are changing our behaviour to become not just networked individuals but 'network animals'.

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#5. At the ratings agency Standard & Poor's, where they've knowingly mispriced risk, one guy messages another: 'Let's hope we are all wealthy and retired by the time this house of cards falters,' adding the emoticon ':O)'.

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#6. Einstein believed the truth of a theory is, for certain, borne out by whether it successfully predicts experience. But the relationship between the theory and the experience can only be grasped intuitively.

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#7. With info-capitalism, a monopoly is not just some clever tactic to maximize profit. It is the only way an industry can run.

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#8. It is entirely possible to build the elements of the new system molecularly within the old. In the cooperatives, the credit unions, the peer-networks, the unmanaged enterprises and the parallel, subcultural economies, these elements already exist

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#9. But why, if the real weekly value of my labour is thirty hours of other people's work, would I ever work sixty hours?

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#10. JP Morgan spelled it out: for neoliberalism to survive, democracy must fade.

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#11. The democracy of riot squads, corrupt politicians, magnate-controlled newspapers and the surveillance state looks as phony and fragile as East Germany did thirty years ago.

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#12. The root cause, simply put, is globalization, and the resulting monopolization of wealth by a global elite.

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#13. Who can forget the contract issued at Apple's Foxconn plants in China, in 2010, forcing workers to sign a pledge not to commit suicide due to workplace stress?4

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#14. And for many, politics has become gestural: it is about refusing to engage with power on power's own terms; about action, not ideas; about the symbolic control of territory to create islands of utopia.

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#15. Whenever I want to stop myself being too Marxist about the future, I think about Shakespeare.

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