„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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„The man who won the argument, however, was John Locke, the Liberal philosopher, at that time acting as advisor to Sir Isaac Newton, then Warden of the Mint. Locke insisted that one can no more make a small piece of silver worth more by relabeling it a "shilling" than one can make a short man taller by declaring there are now fifteen inches in a foot.“
— David Graeber
Chapter Eleven, "Age of the Great Capitalist Empires", p. 340
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„Honor is the same as credit; it's one's ability to keep ones promises, but also, in the case of a wrong, to "get even".“
— David Graeber
Chapter Seven, "Honor and Degradation", p. 193
„Exchange is all about equivalence.“
— David Graeber
Chapter Five, "A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Moral Relations", p. 103
„Who was the first man to look at a house full of objects and to immediately assess them only in terms of what he could trade them in for in the market likely to have been? Surely he can only have been a thief.“
— David Graeber
Chapter Twelve, "1971–The Beginning…", p. 386
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„The criminalization of debt was the criminalization of the very basis of human society.“
— David Graeber
Chapter Eleven, "Age of the Great Capitalist Empires", p. 334
„"Communist society"; in the sense of a society organized exclusively on that single principle— could never exist. But all social systems, even economic systems like capitalism, have always been built on top of a bedrock of actually-existing communism.“
— David Graeber
Chapter Five, "A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Moral Relations", p. 95
„Exchange implies equality.“
— David Graeber
Chapter Three, "Primordial Debts", p. 63
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„The right's approach is to release the dogs of the market, throwing all traditional verities into disarray; and then, in this tumult of insecurity, offer themselves up as the last bastion of order and hierarchy, the stalwart defenders of the authority of churches and fathers against the barbarians they have themselves unleashed. “
— David Graeber
p, 125
„Karl Marx, who knew quite a bit about the human tendency to fall down and worship our own creations, wrote Das Capital in an attempt to demonstrate that, even if we start from the economists' utopian vision, so long as we also allow some people to control productive capital, and, again, leave others with nothing to sell but but their brains and bodies, the results will be in very many ways barely distinguishable from slavery, and the whole system will eventually destroy itself.“
— David Graeber
Chapter Eleven, "Age of the Great Capitalist Empires", p. 354
„Slavery is the ultimate form of being ripped from one's context, and thus from all the social relationships that make one a human being.“
— David Graeber
Chapter Seven, "Honor and Degradation", p. 168
„Direct action is the insistence, when faced with structures of unjust authority, on acting as if one is already free.“
— David Graeber
Direct Action: An Ethnography (AK Press: 2009), p. 203
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„In fact, communism is the foundation of all human sociability. It is what makes society possible.“
— David Graeber
Chapter Five, "A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Moral Relations", p. 96
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