The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The difference between capitalism and feudalism is that under capitalism, they make money directly through wages, manufacturing, and commerce and under feudalism,… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
I think we need to think of capitalism as a very bad way of organizing communism. Much of what we do is… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The working poor are the people suffering out subprime mortgages and fatal loans and more and more of our money - you… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Free market ideology - does anyone know where it first comes from? It comes from medieval Islam, and specifically, Shari'a. Because Shari'a… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Capitalism is like this fractal thing where anything that contains an element of capitalism anywhere inside it is just something that turns… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Within a capitalist corporation, someone says, "Lend me a wrench," and someone asks, "Yeah, what do I get?" You assume that the… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“The theory of exodus proposes that the most effective way of opposing capitalism and the liberal state is not through direct confrontation… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“Normally, when you challenge the conventional wisdom—that the current economic and political system is the only possible one—the first reaction you are… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“Political economy tends to see work in capitalist societies as divided between two spheres: wage labor, for which the paradigm is always… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
People don't have an ongoing relation unless it's a form of debt because everything is an exchange, so ongoing relationships are incomplete exchanges, and… — David Graeber Copy Share
I would like, then, to end by putting in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they aren’t hurting anyone. Insofar as… — David Graeber Copy Share
“But if Smith was right, and gold and silver became money through the natural workings of the market completely independently of governments, then wouldn't… — David Graeber Copy Share
“A revolution on a world scale will take a very long time. But it is also possible to recognize that it is already starting… — David Graeber Copy Share
“money has no essence. It's not "really" anything; therefore, its nature has always been and presumably always will be a matter of political contention.” — David Graeber Copy Share
We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we already live… — David Graeber Copy Share
The working poor are the people suffering out subprime mortgages and fatal loans and more and more of our money - you know, capitalism… — David Graeber Copy Share
“Solitary pleasures will always exist, but for most human beings, the most pleasurable activities almost always involve sharing something: music, food, liquor, drugs, gossip,… — David Graeber Copy Share
“The criminalization of debt, then, was the criminalization of the very basis of human society. It cannot be overemphasized that in a small community,… — David Graeber Copy Share
If you imagine that everything is an exchange, then we're supposed to just transact and walk away. If we haven't walked away and we… — David Graeber Copy Share
“As Pierre Bourdieu was later to point out in describing a similar economy of trust in contemporary Algeria: it’s quite possible to turn honor… — David Graeber Copy Share
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate… — David Graeber Copy Share
“As the events of 2011 reveal, the age of revolutions is by no means over. The human imagination stubbornly refuses to die. And the… — David Graeber Copy Share
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