We need each other to do things that we can't do for ourselves. If we are intimately connected with each other, we… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Now, we're used to thinking of communism as being once-upon-a-time-all-things-were-owned-in-common, maybe-someday-this-will-come-again. And people agree that there is a sort of epic narrative… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
What we're already doing is communism. The first step we have to make is to realize that we're already closer to it… — 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
I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it's going to be a disaster,. — David Graeber Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that most people in America would really like to be able to get a job where they… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
It's true that most American citizens think of themselves as living in a democratic country. But when was the last time that… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
You would think that if neoliberals were in any way honest, after the collapse of the Soviet Union the first thing to… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The best way to think about anarchism is as a combination of three levels. On the one hand, the sort of instinctual… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
You can't have cutthroat competition when there's no one stopping you from actually cutting each other's throats. In order to build up… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 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 already live… — 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 know, capitalism… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
