States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.
David GraeberI think we need to think of capitalism as a very bad way of organizing communism. Much of what we do is already communism, so just expand it.
David GraeberAristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.
David GraeberWithin a capitalist corporation, someone says, "Lend me a wrench," and someone asks, "Yeah, what do I get?" You assume that the idea of each according to his or her abilities, each according to his or her needs - in solving a problem - is actually the only thing that works. And in situations of disaster, there are often communistic notions of improvisation, where you basically exchange hierarchies and all of a sudden all those things that are luxuries that you can't afford, you have them in an emergency.
David GraeberOne of the fairly interesting things about money is that it makes certain things possible that wouldn't be possible otherwise - it doesn't make them inevitable. Hence the strange blindness of economists to what would actually happen when one does exchange things if there isn't money in such contexts.
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