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Notably, as quoted from #DavidGraeber 's seminal work "Debt: the First 5,000 Years".
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Vous pouvez apprendre ça par coeur :
L'indispensable David Graeber sur la façon dont le capitalisme est intrinsèquement, ontologiquement nocif et ne peut être réformé.
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"The only extended conversation I ever had with police officers on the subject of puppets, on the other hand, was carried out while was handcuffed- which if nothing else makes it very difficult to take notes." - David Graeber *On the phenomenology of giant puppets*
"Our feelings of helplessness stem from the fact that for thirty years the tools of persuasion and coercion have been mobilized to wage an ideological war for capitalism, rather than to create conditions for capitalism to remain viable." -David Graeber
From *The ultimate hidden truth of our the world: David Graeber
From discussion between Piketty and Graeber.
THOMAS PIKETTY: "I am not sure that we are on the eve of a collapse of the system, at least not from a purely economic viewpoint. A lot depends on political reactions and on the ability of the elites to persuade the rest of the population that the present situation is acceptable."
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-there-never-was-a-west
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-fragments-of-an-anarchist-anthropology
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-debt
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-utopia-of-rules
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-direct-action
The Anarchist LibraryBullshit JobsDavid Graeber Bullshit Jobs A Theory May 15, 2018, originally published. ISBN 978-1-5011-4331-1, ISBN 978-1-5011-4334-2 (ebook); Most names and many...
4 times a year, Boston's Lucy Parsons Center puts out a zine.
look who they featured this time around-- right next to Mr David Graeber
"Talking about rational efficiency becomes a way of avoiding talking about what the efficiency is actually for."
~ David Graeber, 2015, The Utopia of Rules
#DavidGraeber #freemarket
If I gotta hang out in a seedy motel, I might as well read Debt : the first 5000 years, by David Graeber.
If you trust the historian #DavidGraeber, there is in fact nothing new with what’s happening in the USA right now.
In prehistoric times, a city did not form as ways of fighting war, but ended as one.
Egalitarian communities formed cities and made them successfull. When they become too successfull, they are eventually conquered by more primitive, but warring tribes.
This triggers decay, as the egalitarians start to leave and the city falls in a few hundred years, and is finally abandoned.
There needs to be a #DavidGraeber tag and there needs to be a #ChristopherHitchens tag, and they need to argue with each other.
Happy #DavidGraeber birthday. "Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!" https://davidgraeber.org/articles/are-you-an-anarchist-the-answer-maysurprise-you/
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David GraeberAre You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You! - David GraeberChances are you have already heard something about who anarchists are and what they are supposed to believe. Chances are almost everything you have heard is nonsense. Many people seem to think that anarchists are proponents of violence, chaos, and destruction, that they are against all forms of order and organization, or that they are […]
"Police are bureaucrats with weapons."
- David Graeber, «The Utopia of Rules»
Happy birthday, #DavidGraeber! 
Rest in power! 
David GraeberDavid Rolfe Graeber - David GraeberIt all started with the horror of David’s death; then there was Carnival4David, then this site was created by David’s family. David Graeber Institute was established in 2022. However, davidgraeber.org remains a separate site, aiming to collect and share as much about David as possible independently from other projects, which we hope will be many. […]
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Weird snacks are entertaining, but on a more serious note: look at all that #plastic packaging, think of all the #FossilFuel used to make & transport these useless products, and rage about the millions of dollars spent on marketing them! People got PAID to think this shit up! Definitely fine examples of #DavidGraeber's #BullshitJobs and low-hanging fruit for elimination in any #degrowth initiative (IMHO necessary).
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@FantasticalEconomics Absolutely!
SRSLY Wrong! is a leftist utopian podcast that promotes library socialism and usefruktian economies.
It's 2 Canadians exploring ideas with skits and discussions.
This episode about Library Socialism might be a good introduction:
https://srslywrong.com/podcast/298-unlocked-qa-how-to-make-library-socialism-now/
They also have a fun Christmas tape and a cool series about pirates.
#davidgraeber is an overt influence.
The article I linked in my recent posts on news bias at the BBC are yet another symptom of the Professional-Managerial Class. Which the late David Graeber excoriated in his article on the way they're wrecking academia;
https://davidgraeber.org/papers/anthropology-and-the-rise-of-the-professional-managerial-class/
The idea that "management" is a particular set of skills - transferable from retail stores, to newsrooms, to airlines, to governments - is a dangerous nonsense. One that is rapidly driving human societies towards a cliff.
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David GraeberAnthropology and the rise of the professional-managerial class - David GraeberMany of the internal changes within anthropology as a discipline—particularly the “postmodern turn” of the 1980s—can only be understood in the context of broader changes in the class composition of the societies in which university departments exist, and, in particular, the role of the university in the reproduction of a professional-managerial class that has come […]
@Greguti David Graeber, dans La démocratie aux marges, souligne que la véritable démocratie émerge souvent de zones d'improvisation culturelle, où les individus, libérés des contraintes étatiques, collaborent pour gérer leur vie commune. Ces espaces, comme ceux des pirates ou des communautés marginalisées, montrent que la démocratie ne se limite pas aux institutions formelles. 
#Démocratie #Autogouvernement #ZonesMarginales #DavidGraeber #Anarchie #cooperation
somehow, david graeber is always able to explain things to me in a way that gives me hope & clarity. in this short interview, he talks about #syria, #anarchism & #rojava.
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https://youtu.be/gqfoJvD0Ifg
Lovely tribute to the late David Graeber by Rebecca Solnit, from her foreword to a new collection of his writing.
"David’s recurrent rallying cry as both a scholar and an activist was: “It does not have to be this way.” Where academia can be cool and guarded, pulling away from direct engagement, he was warm and enthusiastic, wanting to see ideas lead to actions that could change the world"
The Guardian · ‘It does not have to be this way’: the radical optimism of David Graeber