What we’re already doing
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. David Graeber
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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. David Graeber
Communism is the basis of all sociality and it’s the basis of cooperation. David Graeber
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? … Read more
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. David Graeber
Even in the most market-obsessed society, we’re still spending half of our time on something other than just getting cash. David Graeber
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. David Graeber
A debt … is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion. David Graeber
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. David Graeber
States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today. David Graeber
I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it’s going to be a disaster,. David Graeber