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It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.

In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on farmers. It's hard to believe, but it was based in Texas, and it was quite radical. They wanted their own banks, their own cooperatives, their own control over sales and commerce.

As for my own views, they've of course evolved over the years. This conception of 'renouncing beliefs' is very odd, as if we're in some kind of religious cult. I 'renounce beliefs' practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

The Occupy movement is - it was a big surprise.

There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we've seen with the Internet's development.