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Explore our hand-picked selection of 63 inspiring quotes by David Graeber.

About David Graeber

  • Born: February 12, 1961
  • Occupation: Anthropologist
    • What we're already doing is communism. the first step we have to make is to realize that we're already closer to it than we think.
    Thinking Firsts Steps
    Communism is the basis of all sociality and it's the basis of cooperation.
    Cooperation Communism Bases
    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 going on here. i think we should just throw this narrative out, it's irrelevant anyway, and who cares who owns things? i don't. you know, we all own the white house. so what? i still can't go in, right?
    Thinking Epic White
    When you take away the violence from the market, even it starts shifting into something else - not exactly paradise, but it doesn't become the market in the way we see it now.
    Paradise Way Shifting
    Even in the most market-obsessed society, we're still spending half of our time on something other than just getting cash.
    Half Cash Obsessed
    One of the fairly interesting things about money is that it makes certain things possible that wouldn't be possible otherwise - it doesn't make them inevitable. hence the strange blindness of economists to what would actually happen when one does exchange things if there isn't money in such contexts.
    Interesting Doe Strange
    A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.
    Debt Completion
    It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.
    People Democracy Together
    States created markets. markets require states. neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.
    Today States Form
    I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it's going to be a disaster,.
    Thinking Disaster Exodus
    Consensus isn't just about agreement. it's about changing things around: you get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. at the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. most people like it, and nobody hates it.
    Hate Thinking Agreement
    Look at labor policy. what's the point of making everybody work too much? it's not very useful. it is destroying the planet, actually. but it's great at keeping people off the streets.
    People Looks Too Much
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