Brutkey

David Graeber Institute
@DGI@graeber.social
“Imperialism is not a word that belongs in the past. It is alive and thriving, though its language has changed. It is now called ‘globalization’, ‘humanitarian intervention’, or ‘spreading democracy’. Its victims are still the same: the poor, the powerless, and those who happen to live where powerful nations want control.” 4fdcedd25399ef74.png homeless tents in london aadf63d1bcecc5ea.jpg Feminists have long since pointed out that those on the bottom of any unequal social arrangement tend to think about and therefore care about those on top more than those on top that about or care about them. Women everywhere tend to think and know more about men's lives than men do about women. Just as back people know more about white people. employees about employers' and the poor about the rich. David Graeber. 6bcb9907d1f9e54e.png Poster - of the place you'd go if you were not opprssed by wage labor and class society. 880a4260a988edc5.jpg “The worst slavery is that of heavily indoctrinated happy morons who adore their chains and cannot wait to thank their masters for the joy of their subservience.” 5bbf7f4e39379120.png Revolutions in Reverse is a book from David Graeber about politics, violence and art. 66c310b2983b4da8.jpg "Faced with the prospect of capitalism actually ending, the most common reaction (even from those who call themselves progressives) is simply fear. We cling to what exists because we can no longer imagine an alternative that wouldn’t be even worse." . - David Graeber a04b747d5aefaa22.png "In politics it used to be actually possible to think big. To think about things like: the U.N, space programmes, the welfare state and so on. Nowadays, no Govts are thinking on anything like that scale and seem to be completely incapable of doing so. Statesmen seem to have given up on the idea that they can create anything fundamentally new or bold." . - David Graeber a3b5d0a79346bd1a.png Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital, the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information – press, radio, education. — Albert Einstein (From Why Socialism, by Albert Einstein 1949) 668899b50a94bc3e.png UBI is expensive, but so is the system we have now and there’s a major savings that you’ll have firing all those people who are assessing who is worthy of what. Philosophically, I think that it’s really important to bear in mind two things. One is it’ll show people that you don’t have to force people to work, to want to contribute. It’s not that people resist work. People resist meaningless work; people resist stupid work; and people resist humiliating work. But I always talk about prisons, where people are fed, clothed, they’ve got shelter; they could just sit around all day. But actually, they use work as a way of rewarding them. You know, if you don’t behave yourself, we won’t let you work in the prison laundry. I mean, people want to work. Nobody just wants to sit around, it’s boring. . - David Graeber 014c84509ab83616.png