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Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced. If we really want to understand this situation, we have to begin by understanding that the last thirty years have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness. 1/6

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"In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it."

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“Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.”

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"Capitalism is a situation where people can systematically turn their wealth into power by control of productive resources. So if u control the means of production &other people don't own anything but their own labor, they're essentially forced to sell/rent themselves as slaves"

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What’s Capitalism What’s Socialism @davidgraeber #TWT

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“Middle classness is not really an economic category at all; it was always more social and political."

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"Debt is the most efficient means ever created to make relations fundamentally based on violence and inequality seem morally upright." From, The Machinery of Hopelessness by David Graeber (2011).

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"Essentially, these were the things the working class created when they weren’t actually working."

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An extract from the introduction to the Book; Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber!

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The same 'free market' policies that have made life & work more difficult for so many over the past few decades have simultaneously produced more highly paid managers, telemarketers, insurance company bureaucrats, lawyers and lobbyists who do nothing useful all day.

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A kind of giant machine that is designed, first and foremost, to destroy any sense of possible alternative futures. 2/6

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At root is a veritable obsession on the part of the rulers of the world with ensuring that social movements cannot be seen to grow, to flourish, to propose alternatives; that those who challenge existing power arrangements can never be perceived to win. 3/6

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From David Graeber's 2008 text "Hope in Common". Read it here: 6/6

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We seem to have reached an impasse. Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. Organized resistance...

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David Graeber on how the police invaded our imagination.

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.. most of which do not attack alternatives directly so much as they create a pervasive climate of fear, jingoistic conformity, and simple despair that renders any thought of changing the world seem an idle fantasy. 5/6

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When asked once about the structure of modern capitalism in an interview, David Graeber had a very interesting answer. Have a read for yourself!

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A bullshit job is a job that the person doing it believes is pointless, and if the job didn’t exist it would either make no difference whatsoever or it would make the world a better place.

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To do so requires creating a vast apparatus of armies, prisons, police, various forms of private security firms and police and military intelligence apparatus, propaganda engines of every conceivable variety.. 4/6

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"We need to realize that the world is largely what we make of it. There is no reason we have to live like this." Dutch TV interviewed David Graeber in a clip from 2019 about modern work and the modern economic system.

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David Graeber on why we live in a permanent state of war.

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Why, in 2024, despite all our technological capacities, are we are not all working 3–4 hours a day? This question is posed in the work on #BullshitJobs

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"The neoliberal (‘free market’) ideology that had dominated the world since the days of Thatcher and Reagan was really the opposite of what it claimed to be: it was really a political project dressed up as an economic one."

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From David Graeber's essay: A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse. Sorry very relevant today in 2024!

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Renowned feminist activist and author Silvia Federici will join Seminars of Care in February! Silvia Federici is an Italian and American scholar, teacher, and activist from the radical autonomist feminist Marxist and anarchist tradition. Register: 1/5

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If we were to distribute the remaining work among everyone equally, how many hours would we have to work. Five hours a day? Four? Three? Two? Nobody knows because no one is even asking this kind of question.

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Capitalism does not contain an inherent tendency to civilise itself. 1/5

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David Graeber’s Birthday: Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology Celebrate David's birthday with us on 12 February, 2024 at 20:00 (London time). This event will be hosted by James Schneider @schneiderhome , who is an English political organizer and writer. 1/3

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In December, we discussed the differences between bullshit jobs in the Soviet Union and in capitalist societies. Here is a part of that discussion with anthropologist Zinaida Vasilyeva, who is a researcher at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin.

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Excerpt from the book “Bullshit Jobs” by David Graeber. Worth a read!

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To save the world, we’re going to have to stop working!

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David Graeber’s Birthday: Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology Learn more here:

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Silvia Federici, whose books and essays focus on political philosophy, feminist theory and feminist movements will be joining us on 24 February, 2024 at 18:00 (London time). Sign up here:

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Revolutions are a planetary phenomena. What they really do is transform basic assumptions about what politics is ultimately about. 1/9

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David Graeber's Hostile Intelligence: Reflections from a Visit to the West Bank Read the full text here:

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Brain Trust is founded on a number of principles: The climate crisis is already here. The government will not help us. 1/4

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“…if the ultimate aim of neoliberal capitalism is to create a world where no one believes any other economic system could really work, then it needs to suppress not just any idea of an inevitable redemptive future, but really any radically different technological future at all.”

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... and at least the possibility of workers’ uprisings at home. David Graeber's 2014 essay 'Savage capitalism is back - and it will not tame itself'. Read it here: 5/5

Savage capitalism is back – and it will not tame itself | David Graeber

David Graeber: Capitalists spread prosperity only when threatened by global rivalry, radical movements and the risk of uprisings at home

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On February 01 at 20:00 (London time) we will host the first session of Stas Kraev's "Fetish and Value" reading group. We will be discussing David Graeber's essay 'Fetishism as Social Creativity'. Read it here: Register:

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We are hosting on 2nd September a talk about David Graeber's essay "I Didn’t Understand How Widespread Rape Was. Then the Penny Dropped” It will take place via Zoom. If you want to join in, you can register here:

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We do not have to wait until “after the revolution” to begin to get a glimpse of what genuine freedom might be like. David Graeber's 2004 article "Anarchism, Or The Revolutionary Movement Of The Twenty-first Century" Read more:

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What is a revolution? David Graeber's 2023 article "A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse". Read more:

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Tomorrow is the last meeting of our 'Bullshit Jobs' reading group. We will be joined by sociologist Elena Gapova to discuss the difference between bullshit jobs in the USSR and capitalist societies. Register here:

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We are preparing a series of lectures that will occur throughout 2024. Learn more: 4/4

Brain Trust - David Graeber Institute

We interested to explore human-scale technologies from play agriculture to 3D printing, from local energy production to independent education. In the final year of his life, David Graeber co-created...

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The Bullshit Jobs reading group starts on November 16. Join Steven Bachelor to discuss David Graeber's influential text on how capitalism has created a system that rewards those who destroy value over those who create it. Read more:

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"Not only is the public largely unaware of this, but a recent survey by the British research group Positive Money discovered that an astounding 85 percent of members of Parliament had no idea where money really came from."

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Left to its own devices, it can be expected to create rates of return on investment so much higher than overall rates of economic growth that the only possible result will be to transfer more and more wealth into the hands of a hereditary elite of investors... 2/5

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Housework had to be transformed into a natural attribute rather than be recognised as a social contract because from the beginning of capital’s scheme for women this work was destined to be unwaged. 1/5

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The period when capitalism seemed capable of providing broad prosperity was also, precisely, the period when capitalists felt they were not the only game in town: they faced a global rival in the Soviet bloc, revolutionary anti-capitalist movements from Uruguay to China.. 4/5

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Michael Hudson on the surprising historical origins of the world 'tyrant' in Ancient Greece.

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November 19, 18:00 The David Graeber Institute is pleased to announce the resumption of the Reading Group on Care. The inaugural session will take place on 19th November 2023. learn more:

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On December 16, we hosted the second lecture in the Brain Trust series: "Climate Change: Is it a Beat Up?; Or Will It Beat Us Up?; And Is There a Way to Beat It?" with @ProfSteveKeen 1/3

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...to the comparative impoverishment of everybody else. 3/5

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Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology prompts us to imagine a discipline that currently only exists as a concept: anarchist anthropology. We’ll be discussing this text on David Graeber’s birthday - February 12, 2024 at 20:00 (London time).

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Why do economists get climate change wrong? @ProfSteveKeen explains during our second Brain Trust lecture.

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Our event series "Pedagogies of Care" starts on 29 February, 2024 at 20:00 (London time). Learn more: 1/2

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Michael Hudson talked about his book ‘The Collapse of Antiquity’ on January 25 during the last meeting of our reading group, moderated by Christian Walter, about his work.

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Our reading group "Fetish and Value" starts on 01 February, 2024 20:00 (London time). We will be discussing David’s essay 'Fetishism as Social Creativity' and will then progress to the book 'Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value'. Register here:

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In this video, Michael Hudson talks about David Graeber's ideas surrounding debt. Michael joins us next Thursday at 20:00 (London time) online to discuss his work on the role of debt in Antiquity. Register:

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Michael Hudson will be joining us to talk about his book "The Collapse of Antiquity" on January 25 at 20:00 (London time), online. 1/5

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There is a growing feeling, among those who have the responsibility of managing large economies, that the discipline of economics is no longer fit for purpose. David Graeber's 2019 article "Against Economics." Read more:

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On February 8 at 20:00 (London time) together with anthropologist Anni Kajunus we will explore how power emerges through interpersonal relations in different contexts. 1/2

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Humanity has the theoretical and practical knowledge of how to grow food, insolate buildings, produce alternative energy, heal and educate each other in local communities without the involvement of giant conglomerates and international corporations. 3/4

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What we are experiencing today is not a crisis of democracy but rather a crisis of the state. David Graeber's 2007 article "There Never Was a West Or, Democracy Emerges From the Spaces In Between." Read more:

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For those interested, this quote comes directly from a Tweet that David Graeber wrote about the debate on whether Virgin Atlantic (and Richard Branson) should receive state-support during Covid.

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@BorrheidBurgh all capitalists want capitalism for the masses and socialism for the super rich elites. That's kind of the definition of capitalism imho.

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Seminars of Care with Sylvia Federici on February 24 at 18:00 (London time): Artwork: Occupied Times 5/5

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We, who lack the resources to build a sanctuary in New Zealand or a floating island in the ocean, must create the technologies and communities to survive the coming crisis. The technologies that can prevent social collapse already exist. 2/4

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Where are the flying cars? Why aren't there space stations on Mars? Why don't we see teenagers with antigravity hoverboards (which some were hoping to see already in 2015)?

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Acts of creative refusal can lead to new ideals of equality, new forms of hierarchy, or often, a complicated mix of both. David Graeber's 2013 paper "Culture as creative refusal." Read more here:

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On Monday, we are hosting a Zoom discussion about David Graeber's essay "I Didn’t Understand How Widespread Rape Was..." Dyan Neary, Professor of Journalism, will join us. If you would like to participate, you can register here at this link:

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: "I Didn’t Understand How Widespread Rape Was..." with...

The inaugural meeting of 'The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World...' group, begginng on the 2nd of September, in commemoration of David’s death. This autumn we are starting a new programme to...

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Michael Hudson talks about democratic liberty vs oligarchic liberty during our reading group on his book 'The Collapse of Antiquity'.

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If one reinterprets a ‘mode of production’ to mean a relation between surplus extraction and the creation of human beings, then it is possible to see industrial capitalism as an introjected form of the slave mode of production. 1/2

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On the relationship between value and labor.

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Americans do not like to think of themselves as a nation of bureaucrats — quite the opposite —but the moment we stop imagining bureaucracy as a phenomenon limited to government offices, it becomes obvious that this is precisely what we have become. [1/4]

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Why do we Play? A film by Dr Khalil ‘Avi’ Betz-Heineman, as part of his reading group on David Graeber's "What's the Point If We Can't Have Fun?"

Why do we Play? A film by Dr Avi (Dr KBH)

A video made by Avi as part of his "Why Do We Play? The Origins of Self-Consciousness, Freedom, and Morality" reading group.Read more: https://davidgraeber.i...

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This is an extract from David Graeber's essay "I didn't understand how widespread rape was. Then the penny dropped." Later today (8pm UK time. 3pm New York time) we host a zoom to discuss the topic! If you're interested, you can register at this link:

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David Graeber counted Michael Hudson’s work on Mesopotamian debt Jubilees as well as the structure of American imperialism as major influences on his book “Debt – the first 5000 years”.

THE ORIGINS OF MODERN DEBT POLITICS IN GREECE AND ROME – READING MICHAEL HUDSON’S “THE COLLAPSE OF...

In the fourth session we look at how public finance was taken over by oligarchs and how Sparta's last kings tried and failed at reform. This closes our

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On September 29 we hosted @adrianbowyer 's lecture on open-source self-replicating machines. @nikadubrovsky and @rocsandford interviewed Adrian about the future of 3D printing. Part 1

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Our experimental reading group starts tomorrow. Join anthropologists Anni Kajunus and Avi to discuss how power emerges through interpersonal relations in different contexts. Register here:

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As a result, in most cases, the rebels didn’t even try to take over the apparatus of state; they saw that apparatus as itself the problem. David Graeber 9/9

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This is an extract from David Graeber's essay "I didn't understand how widespread rape was. Then the penny dropped." On Monday (8pm London time) we are hosting to zoom to discuss the topic! If you are interested, you can register at this link:

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The Politics of Magic David Graeber's 1998 essay for The Nation:

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Christian Walter explains why Michael Hudson's "The Collapse of Antiquity" is so important today.

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Why Do We Play? The origins of self-consciousness, freedom, and morality. November 30 at 20:00 (London Time) Learn more here:

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How do we tackle climate change? @ProfSteveKeen

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On December 16 at 18:00, learn how we can use economics to reduce global warming with @ProfSteveKeen and Adam Hardy of . Register:

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There's still time to register and join! "Fetish and Value" starts tonight at 20:00 (London time).

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We're working to transcribe David Graeber's archive. Find out more:

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An episode featuring Livingston talking to Matt Seybold and Corey McCall about Graeber’s posthumous book, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Bullshit Jobs, Fuck Work, & The Legacy of David Graeber with James Livingston & Corey McCall

New episode of The American Vandal Podcast about David Graeber’s posthumous book, The Dawn of Everything, as well as the Great Resignation, the Great Recession, the Great Risk Shift, and much…

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The Virtues of Diogenes, a three-part adventure. Avi (Dr Khalil Betz-Heinemann) will lead a three-part series exploring the societal implications of interpersonal relations through the character of Diogenes and a merry band of legends.

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What is the State? The Real Democracy Movement and the Museum of Care are continuing their discussion series on the State and its role in the world. Read more here:

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David Graeber was involved in creating the Brain Trust in the last year of his life at the suggestion of the founding members of the Extinction Rebellion. 1/4

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Clive Russell @thisaintrock , co-founder of the Extinction Rebellion Art Group, talks about the importance of care as an activist strategy during the first session of "Seminars of Care" in November 2023.

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Before the French Revolution, the ideas that change is good, that government policy is the proper way to manage it, and that governments derive their authority from an entity called “the people” were considered the sorts of things one might hear from crackpots and demagogues 3/9

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The quote is from an interview between David Graeber and Chris Brooks about David's book; Bullshitjobs. You can read the full interview posted on PDF here:

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Join us tonight 20:00 (London time) for our discussion "Why do we Play? The Origins of Self-Consciousness, Freedom and Morality" with anthropologist of deplorable animals, Dr Khalil ‘Avi’ Betz-Heinemann!

Why Do We Play? The Origins of Self-Consciousness, Freedom, and Morality

'Play as a principle of nature does not necessarily mean adopting any sort of milky utopian view. The play principle can help explain why sex is fun, but

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Why Do We Play? The Origins of Self-Consciousness, Freedom, and Morality --- Part 2 This event will be held online at 20:00 on December 28. Register here: #davidgraeber #anthropology 1/3

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