David Graeber
David Graeber
David Rolfe Graeberis a London-based anthropologist and anarchist activist, perhaps best known for his 2011 volume Debt: The First 5000 Years. He is Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth12 February 1961
CountryUnited States of America
today states form
States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.
purpose slave
Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.
schemes true-value values
In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.
country powerful military
If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.