“Analytical techniques, by their very nature, tend to kill emergent properties, that is, properties of the whole that are more than the sum of its parts”

“We tend to uncritically assume systematicity, as when one talks of the “capitalist system”, instead of showing exactly how such systematic properties of the whole emerge from concrete historical processes. Worse yet, we then tend to reify such unaccounted-for systematicity, ascribing all kinds of causal powers to capitalism, to the extent that a clever writer can make it seem as if anything at all (from nonlinear dynamics itself to postmodernism or cyberculture) is the product of late capitalism.”

“This conceptual confusion is so entrenched that I believe the only solution is to abandon the term “capitalism” completely, and to begin speaking of markets and antimarkets and their dynamics.”