#graeber

[tthhiinnkkiinngg]

[phaeton-flier]

No, Dudebro, you don't get to just disconnect from society. Oh, you never agreed to anything? Learn about the social contract, maybe.

So I assume we've seen the last of this "eating meat on Friday" nonsense, yes?

[somerandomg33k]

Being active in Left-wing activism, it does feel like we are constantly fighting a losing battle. But that could lead us to be unprepared for when we actually do win. David Graeber, rest in Power, reflects on times when radical Left-wing activism did achieve what they wanted.

Here is my latest YouTube video.

[absurdlakefront]

"The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently."

David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy, 2015

[aronarchy]

from The Dawn of Everything

[athousandgateaux]

What makes a slave different from a serf, a peon, captive or inmate is their lack of social ties. In legal terms, at least, a slave has no family, no kin, no community; they can make no promises and forge no ongoing connections with other human beings. This is why the English word ‘free’ is actually derived from a root meaning ‘friend’. Slaves could not have friends because they could not make commitments to others, since they were entirely under someone else’s power and their only obligation was to do exactly what their master said.

David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, pg. 211

[fromgreecetoanarchy]

David Graeber (1961-2020): An anarchist and anthropological farewell to a ‘sudden thinker’

When a friend messaged me a few days ago to ask me if I had heard about David’s death, before the news had been published, my initial reaction was to search for my cell phone to call him and …

[iggymogo]

David Graeber on the Extreme 'Centre': “It strikes me that what’s called the moderates are the most immoderate people possible”