It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a … - David Graeber

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

The problem was with construction and retail, you have to be able to shut things off at night and spend quality time with yourself and family. I couldn't do it. I knew that I wasn't going to be able to give 100% to my passion if I held on to them.

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.

Come, Democracy, Equal, People, Say, Together

Same Author Quotes

[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.

Embarrassing, Fact, Facts, Form, Haunts, Market

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.

Debt, Debts, Pay, Turns

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.

Attitude, Contains, Fractal, Looks, Reality, Suppose

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.

Benefits, Ones, Paid, People, Rule