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“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
― Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

“CUSTOMER (to her friend): What's this literary criticism section? Is it for books that complain about other books?”
― Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops

“The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.”
― James Baldwin

“Critique Economy, a largely discursive and academic mini-industry that seems to have consumed too much of the left's energy of late, as its actual institutional power has declined.”
― Joshua Dávila, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It

“The truth is that crypto-marketers use right-wing libertarian rhetoric in order to attract a particular audience because it is also one that is willing to part with their government-backed money.”
― Joshua Dávila, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It

“Markets under capitalism are essentially undemocratic, with the rich having more say than the poor”
― Joshua Dávila

“Markets under capitalism are essentially undemocratic, with the rick having more say than the poor.”
― Joshua Dávila, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It

“Today, capitalism is more and more driven by large corporations, powerful financial actors and platform unicorns such as Meta, Uber and Amazon. The goal of these companies is not to compete on the market, but rather to own it.”
― Joshua Dávila, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It

“The legitimacy of the struggles being fought by the most vulnerable should not be subsumed into paternalistic calls for legal clarity and submission to surveillance in the name of protecting investors.”
― Joshua Dávila, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It

“It is as if the only way to do something good in the world is to include an individual profit motive, ignoring the vast majority of human history in which economic systems were not ruled by profit.”
― Joshua Dávila, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It

“Regulation requires more surveillance and those at the top will always have loopholes at their disposal. Regulation is not just a tool for the state to dampen the most extreme exploitation, but also a handy legitimization tactic for capitalist organizations to further entrench their power.”
― Joshua Dávila, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It

“Capitalism is a centralisation machine.”
― Joshua Dávila, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It

“Cooperatives are to corporations what democracy is to a dictatorship.”
― Joshua Dávila, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It

“The ugly truth is that, under capitalism, it will almost always be more profitable to keep the existing system in place than to change it for the social good.”
― Joshua Dávila, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It

“We have seen the centralization effects of capitalism on Bitcoin today where the majority of mining power comes from organized operations and rarely from hobbyists in their bedroom.”
― Joshua Dávila, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It

“The issues around climate change are not just about coordination failure, but are also a power struggle against the largest polluters of the world and the defeatism they often engender in the wider society.”
― Joshua Dávila, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It

“Code is a digital instantiation of politics.”
― Joshua Dávila, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It

“To be neutral on human rights is in fact a choice not to consider human rights. Neutrality is an implied refusal, a missed opportunity, a failure of imagination.”
― Joshua Dávila, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It

“History has shown us that rights are not granted, they are fought for.”
― Joshua Dávila, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It

“What makes something art is its inherent lack of direct utility while, at the same time, if it's considered good art, it is influential in changing how we perceive reality and this then affects how we behave and perhaps coordinate”
― Joshua Dávila, Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It

“There is that old joke. Why is there never a coup in the United States? Because there is no US embassy there.”
― Vijay Prashad, Washington Bullets

“The theory of rogue states and terrorism provided the US with the ability to appropriate the entire discourse of liberalism and human rights to its side – the West is ipso facto the arbiter of human rights and of liberalism, and those that it finds to be violators of these broad principles are rogue states and terrorists. If the US sanctions regime against Iraq could be shown (as FAO did show) to have been responsible for the death of half a million children, that was not to be seen as either the operations of a rogue state or of a terrorist – that was simply unfortunate. If a rogue state or a terrorist killed a few hundred people or even ten people, it was a human rights catastrophe.”
― Vijay Prashad, Washington Bullets

“She knew that no matter how you self-identify ultimately, chances are that you succumb to becoming what the world treats you as.”
― Torrey Peters, Detransition, Baby