Timothy Volpert

“In Gaza, in August 2014, I spent ten days in a community being systematically destroyed by drone strikes, shelling and sniper fire. Fifteen hundred civilians were killed, one third of them children. In February 2015, I saw the US Congress give twenty-five standing ovations to the man who ordered the attacks.”
― Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

“But why, if the real weekly value of my labour is thirty hours of other people’s work, would I ever work sixty hours?”
― Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

“The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“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”
― Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future