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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 7h

This Friday!

Come along to the livestream!

David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 3d

On Friday, we will host a discussion with Michael Hudson, Steve Keen and Ann Pettifor.

The topic will be Debt, Empire and the Future.

It will be streamed on our Youtube channel. Here is the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLAT...

Michael Hudson in Conversation with Steve Keen & Ann Pettifor

YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 19h

BOOK! For those interested in diving deeper into David Graeber's work.

'The Ultimate Hidden Truth Of The World,' is a collection of essays by David Graeber that was published in 2024.

The book is edited and introduced by @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 2d

Yes.

“Everyday we wake up
and collectively make
a world together; but
which one of us, left to
our own devices, would
ever decide they wanted
to make a world like this
one?”

— David Graeber, “Bullshit Jobs: A Theory”

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 2d

Do you have any more details from the event. Was there are recording?

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 2d

Found this old poster going through old files from college.

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Old timey boxing poster repurposed to announce debate/conversation between David Graeber and Michael Denning.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 2d

Yes.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 3d

"The colonized is indebted to the colonizer for being colonized."

David Graeber speaks about the brutality of Debt in history.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 3d

"The colonized is indebted to the colonizer for being colonized."

David Graeber speaks about the brutality of Debt in history.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 5d

One of the biggest Thatcherite myths is that Capitalism and a society with markets are the same thing.

David Graeber pointed out this is not historically true.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 4d

watching all the protest frog photos snd posters (great work @ryancordell.org and co!) i think probably folks would find this 2007 easy by David Graeber worth reading. to my old self there's not a lot of distance between an inflatable frog and a giant puppet

On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets Broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role of the police in American culture

What follows is an essay of interpretation. It is about direct action in North America, about the mass mobilizations organized by the so called “anti-globalization movement”, and especially, about the...

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 3d

On Friday, we will host a discussion with Michael Hudson, Steve Keen and Ann Pettifor.

The topic will be Debt, Empire and the Future.

It will be streamed on our Youtube channel. Here is the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLAT...

Michael Hudson in Conversation with Steve Keen & Ann Pettifor

YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber

www.youtube.com

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 5d

Full talk here from David Graeber:

youtu.be/9f9H1dm5qMQ

Is Capitalism Part of the Answer? - 04 - David Graeber speaks

YouTube video by Occupy the London Stock Exchange

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 5d

One of the biggest Thatcherite myths is that Capitalism and a society with markets are the same thing.

David Graeber pointed out this is not historically true.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 5d

If you have any questions that you would like ask about Debt, Empire and the Future, you can post them here on Bsky, and we will pass them on to our guests.

Museum of Care @museumofcare.bsky.social · 5d

Livestreamed on the David Graeber Institute youtube channel, there will be a talk with our guests about Debt, Empire and the Future.

Come along and get your questions ready for the event!

October 17th.

Michael Hudson, Steve Keen and Ann Pettifor

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 7d

David Graeber on the police.

From an interview he gave a few years ago with the Scottish publication called Bella Caledonia. davidgraeber.org/interviews/t...

"The police don’t actually end up spending their time
fighting violent criminals. Instead, they enforce
administrative regulations and endless rules. So
rather than protecting us against violence, police
actually bring the threat of violence into situations
where it would have never occurred otherwise.
Most incidents of violence —domestic violence,
a drunken brawl, or gang fights— the police don’t
get involved. On the other hand, try driving down
the street with no license plates: how long will it
be before you are surrounded by people with weapons."

- David Graeber

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 7d

David Graeber on the police.

From an interview he gave a few years ago with the Scottish publication called Bella Caledonia. davidgraeber.org/interviews/t...

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 7d

If you want to read the full piece, you can here at our website:

davidgraeber.org/articles/a-p...

A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse

What is a revolution? We used to think we knew. Revolutions were seizures of power by pop- ular forces aiming to transform the very nature of the political, social, and economic system in the country ...

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 8d

One of David Graeber's most interesting pieces was from 2013 called - 'A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse.'

Here is an extract.

"What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial
form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field,
or iron foundry, or even in an office cubicle, and instead
started from a mother, a teacher, or a caregiver?
.
We might be forced to conclude that the real business of
human life is not contributing toward something called the
economy but the fact that we are all, and have always been,
projects of mutual creation."
.
- David Graeber

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 8d

One of David Graeber's most interesting pieces was from 2013 called - 'A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse.'

Here is an extract.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 8d

Always worth stopping to think about what Noam Chomsky has to say.

“Capitalism has always
been a system of class war,
one in which the rich and
powerful fight an unending
battle to control society
and its institutions.”
.
- Noam Chomsky

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 9d

Yes

"Say what you like about nurses, garbage collectors, or mechanics, it’s obvious that were they to vanish in a puff of smoke, the results would be immediate & catastrophic.

A world without teachers or dock-workers would soon be in trouble, and even one without science fiction writers or ska musicians would clearly be a lesser place.

It’s not entirely clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs or legal consultants to similarly vanish - many suspect it might markedly improve."

- David Graeber

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 9d

"Cancel all student loan debt? But that
would be unfair to all those people who
struggled for years to pay back their
student loans! Let me assure the reader
that, as someone who struggled for years
to pay back his student loans and
finally did so, this argument makes
about as much sense as saying it
would be unfair to a mugging victim
not to mug their neighbors too."

- David Graeber

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks always for your contributions on here and on Twitter.

They are interesting and give a nice addition to the debate.

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#bullshitjobs @bullshitjobs.bsky.social · 9d

Most people (especially "economists") fail to understand that #basicincome does not cost us anything.

It allows us to ditch billions of economically unnecessary #bullshitjobs that are wasting most of our wealth.

#basicincome makes us wealthier. By freeing-up a ton of wealth.

David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 12d

A pitch for Universal Basic Income from the book Bullshit Jobs.

Have a read.

A full Basic Income would eliminate the compulsion to work, by offering a
reasonable standard of living to all, and then either leaving it up to each
individual to decide whether they wished to pursue further wealth, by
doing a paying job, or selling something, or whether they wished to do
something else with their time. Alternately, it might open the way to
developing better ways of distributing goods entirely. (Money is after all a
rationing ticket, and in an ideal world, one would presumably wish to do
as little rationing as possible.

Obviously, all this depends on the assumption that human beings don't have
to be compelled to work, or at least, to do something that they feel is useful
or beneficial to others. As we've seen, this is a reasonable assumption.
Most people would prefer not to spend their days sitting around watching TV
and the handful who really are inclined to be total parasites are not going
to be a significant burden on society, since the total amount of work required
to maintain people in comfort and security is not that formidable. The
compulsive workaholics who insist on doing far more than they really have
to would more than compensate for the occasional slackers.
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- David Graeber

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 9d

Yes

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