I just completed a brief review of this book at Amazon. After posting the review I came across an excerpt that I thought worth repeating:
The most important feature of private ownership is not that it enables those who own, but that it disables those who do not. [p.228]
Update February 26, 2011:
I just found out that Capital As Power is available as a pdf. (thanks Jeff) Another worthwhile excerpt:
Faith in the principle of capitalization now has more followers than all of
the world’s religions combined. It is accepted everywhere – from New York
and London to Beijing and Teheran. In fact, the belief has spread so widely
that it is now used regularly to discount not only capitalist income, but also
the income of wage earners, governments, and, indeed, society at large.But as often happens with religion, the greater the belief the fewer the ques-
tions. And, indeed, those who obey capitalization are so conditioned that
they rarely if ever enquire into its origin and implications....[p.8]
