Kristen Ross: "Capital’s real war is against subsistence because subsistence means a qualitatively different economy. It means people living differently according to different concepts of what constitutes wealth and what constitutes deprivation. It is oriented toward the intrinsic value and interest of small producers, artisans, and paysans. It involves the gradual creation of a fabric of lived solidarities and a social life built through exchanges of services, informal cooperatives, cooperation and association—the two guiding words of the Paris Commune. It seeks to expand the spheres of activity in which economic rationality does not prevail. It means a life that is not molded and shaped by the world market."