Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

“For the earth to live, capitalism must die,” Nick Estes concludes, and in retracing a materialist history of that system, it’s hard to disagree.19 And if, against the odds, the earth’s partisans win that battle, if through the rapid coordinated flapping of wings we butterflies bring this chilly display case to a shattering concrete end, we will have fought it in collective self-defense, as a last resort.