Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing … - David Graeber

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David Graeber

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.

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[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

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Anarchism is surprisingly effective in solving actual problems largely because anarchists have thought a lot about solving actual problems on a micro level in ways that other political ideologies don't really feel they have to until after they seize state power.

Ideologies, Largely, Levels, Political, Way

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

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Capitalism is like this fractal thing where anything that contains an element of capitalism anywhere inside it is just something that turns into capitalism. It is an incredibly defeatist attitude. If you choose to look at reality that way, I suppose you can, but you have to do enormous violence to reality to do so consistently.

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There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

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