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a commons that is resistant to capitalism

The one thing that all these misconceptions have in common, we will find, is that they tend to reduce all human relations to exchange, as if our ties to society, even to the cosmos itself, can be imagined in the same terms as a business deal. This leads to another question: If not exchange, then what?"

Debt obligations suddenly become “sacrosanct” only when it is a case of the poor or middle class owing the rich

High taxes on the wealthy have accompanied strong employment and economic growth in the past, for instance during the immediate postwar period.

The reason for the double standard on debt seems clear: the debt of the poor and “middle class” (i.e. working class) helps to reproduce a category of people – most people – who need to sell their labor power to capitalists in exchange for wage or salary income or rely on someone (e.g. a partner, a parent) who does