“The universe is not dialectical: it moves toward the extremes, and not toward equilibrium; it is devoted to a radical antagonism, and not to reconciliation or to synthesis.”

“Before abstraction everything is one, but one like chaos; after abstraction everything is united again, but this union is a free binding of autonomous, self-determined beings. Out of a mob a society has developed, chaos has been transformed into a manifold world.”

“The argument that [Sraffa] assumes linearity and horizontal supply curves and all that is another of those myths like that reswitching is just an index number problem. He specifically looked at steady states so as to allow for the possibility of nonlinearity. And, of course, the neoclassical theory of marginal productivity distribution only works in linear systems where the Euler equation holds.”