Quotes by David Graeber

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A debt … is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.

Completion

Debt

Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn’t take is the underlying assumption they have that the basis of a market is mutual aid.

Assumption

Ideas

Lines

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

Anthropology

States

Together

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

Purpose

Slave

But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic project at all, but a political project, designed to devastate the imagination, and willing – with it’s cumbersome securitization and insane military projects – to destroy the capitalist order itself if that’s what it took to make it seem inevitable.

Military

Order

Years

Communism is the basis of all sociality and it’s the basis of cooperation.

Bases

Communism

Cooperation

Debt – like sin – implies that one party in the transaction didn’t live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.

Done

Expectations

Party

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

Acting

Direct Action

Ifs

Even in the most market-obsessed society, we’re still spending half of our time on something other than just getting cash.

Cash

Half

Obsessed

If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.

Country

Military

Powerful

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Alliances

Alternatives

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Army

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Bases

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Cash

Communism

Completion

Cooperation

Country

Cutting

Debt

Decision

Democracy

Differences

Direct Action

Done

Drama

Dream

Energy

Evil

Expectations

Father

Firsts

Form

Giving

Government

Half

Hands

Ideas

Ifs

Imagination

Important

Law

Levels

Lines

Looks

Luxury

Math

Mean

Military

Mortgage

Needs

Neoliberalism

Obsessed

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Oppressed

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Quotes by David Graeber

David Graeber

A debt … is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.

Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn’t take is the underlying assumption they have that the basis of a market is mutual aid.

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

Communism is the basis of all sociality and it’s the basis of cooperation.

Debt – like sin – implies that one party in the transaction didn’t live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

Even in the most market-obsessed society, we’re still spending half of our time on something other than just getting cash.

If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.

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