„Power makes you lazy.“
— David Graeber
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
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David Graeber
Data de nascimento: 12. Fevereiro 1961
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David Graeber é um anarquista, antropólogo e professor leitor de antropologia social, no Colégio Goldsmith da Universidade de Londres. Anteriormente foi professor associado na Universidade de Yale, instituição que, anteriormente, se negou a recontratá-lo após o término de seu contrato em junho de 2007, assunto em torno do qual se apresentam controvérsias e cartas de apoio ao professor e de repúdio à decisão da diretoria da universidade. Graeber participa ativamente em movimentos sociais e políticos, protestando contra o Fórum Econômico Mundial de 2002 e o movimento Occupy Wall Street. Ele é membro do Industrial Workers of the World e faz parte do comite da Organização Internacional para uma Sociedade Participativa .
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„It is the secret scandal of capitalism that at no point has it been organized primarily around free labor.“
— David Graeber
Chapter Eleven, "Age of the Great Capitalist Empires", p. 350
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„To tell the history of debt, then, is also necessarily to reconstruct how the language of the marketplace has come to pervade every aspect of human life— even to provide the terminology for the moral and religious voices ostensibly raised against it.“
— David Graeber
Chapter Five, "A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Moral Relations", p. 89
„One element, however, tends to go flagrantly missing in even the most vivid conspiracy theories about the banking system, let alone in official accounts: that is, the role of military power. There's a reason why the wizard has such a strange capacity to create money out of nothing. Behind him there is a man with a gun.“
— David Graeber
Chapter Twelve, "1971–The Beginning…", p. 364
„The one thing that's clear is that new ideas won't emerge without the jettisoning of much of our accustomed categories of thought— which have become mostly sheer dead weight, if not intrinsic parts of the very apparatus of hopelessness— and formulating new ones. This is why I spent so much of this book talking about the market, but also about the false choice between state and market that so monopolized political ideology for the last centuries that it made it difficult to argue about anything else.“
— David Graeber
Chapter Twelve, "1971–The Beginning…", p. 384
„A legitimate enterprise had to have some moral basis, and the only morality the company knew was debt.“
— David Graeber
Chapter Eleven, "Age of the Great Capitalist Empires", p. 350
„The moment we begin to map the history of money across the last five thousand years of Eurasian history, startling patterns begin to emerge.“
— David Graeber
Chapter Eight, "Credit versus Bullion", p. 212
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„The essence of U. S. military predominance in the world is, ultimately, the fact that it can, at will, drop bombs, with only a few hours' notice, at absolutely any point on the surface of the planet. No other government has ever had anything remotely like this sort of capability. In fact, a case could well be made that it is this very power that holds the entire world monetary system, organized around the dollar, together.“
— David Graeber
Chapter Twelve, "1971–The Beginning…", pp. 365–366
„At the very least, one would imagine being an openly anarchist professor would mean challenging the way universities are run—and I don’t mean by demanding an anarchist studies department, either—and that, of course, is going to get one in far more trouble than anything one could ever write.“
— David Graeber
p. 7
„Marxist schools have authors. Just as Marxism sprang from the mind of Marx, so we have Leninists, Maoists, Trotksyites, Gramscians, Althusserians... (Note how the list starts with heads of state and grades almost seamlessly into French professors.)... Now consider the different schools of anarchism. There are Anarcho-Syndicalists, AnarchoCommunists, Insurrectionists, Cooperativists, Individualists, Platformists... None are named after some Great Thinker; instead, they are invariably named either after some kind of practice, or most often, organizational principle. (Significantly, those Marxist tendencies which are not named after individuals, like Autonomism or Council Communism, are also the ones closest to anarchism.) Anarchists like to distinguish themselves by what they do, and how they organize themselves to go about doing it.“
— David Graeber
p. 5
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„“Policy” is the negation of politics; policy is by definition something concocted by some form of elite, which presumes it knows better than others how their affairs are to be conducted. By participating in policy debates the very best one can achieve is to limit the damage, since the very premise is inimical to the idea of people managing their own affairs.“
— David Graeber
p. 9
