All societies are based on a sort of minimum level of communism. Otherwise, you couldn't have any social relations at all.
David GraeberStates created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.
David GraeberWhat about precarious labor? It's actually not the most efficient form of labor at all. They were much more efficient when they had loyalty to their workers and people were allowed to be creative and contribute - you know that what precarious labor does is that it's the best weapon ever made to depoliticize labor. They're always putting the political in front of the economic.
David GraeberAristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.
David Graeber