David Graeber Quotes About Capitalism

Quotes about: Capitalism

• [A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

  David Graeber

  Facts, Embarrassing, Form

• The working poor are the people suffering out subprime mortgages and fatal loans and more and more of our money - you know, capitalism is operated by extracting money, not so much directly being paid.

  David Graeber

  People, Suffering, Mortgage

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• The difference between capitalism and feudalism is that under capitalism, they make money directly through wages, manufacturing, and commerce and under feudalism, it's directly through juro-political means.

  David Graeber

  Mean, Differences, Political

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• Capitalism is like this fractal thing where anything that contains an element of capitalism anywhere inside it is just something that turns into capitalism. It is an incredibly defeatist attitude. If you choose to look at reality that way, I suppose you can, but you have to do enormous violence to reality to do so consistently.

  David Graeber

  Attitude, Reality, Looks

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• I 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 Graeber

  Thinking, Needs, Way

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• We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we already live communism and anarchism in a million forms everyday.

  David Graeber

  Everyday, Communism, Form

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• The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological conformity to preempt anything that looks like an alternative or a social movement is destroying capitalism.

  David Graeber

  Russia, Movement, Weight

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