"The cancer stage of capitalism is not a metaphor. It is a rigorous description of where we are. The current financial stripping of economies and environments across the world exhibits, in fact, all the hallmark characteristics of a carcinogenic invasion. As on the cellular level, an uncontrolled rogue sequence of reproduction invades and self-multiplies across social borders with no committed function to life-hosts. As on the cellular level, the cancer advances by not being recognized by surrounding life communities. —John McMurtry, Economic Reform, Vol. 11, Number 3, March 1999
