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Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
…about America being a democracy. People who wrote those documents hated democracy. They were utterly against it. A quote from John Adams was very explicit. Majority vote? We can't have a majority vote. The first thing they'll do is they'll abolish the…
…democracy meant the kind of thing we're doing here. They didn't like it. They thought it was terribly threatening. In fact, John Adams said outright, we can't have majority vote. If we have majority rule, the first thing they would do, they would abolish…
…does it say anything about American democracy. People wrote those documents hated democracy. They were utterly against it. quote from John Adams, it was very explicit. Majority vote, we can't have majority vote. The first thing they'll do is they'll abolish…
…in government, direct democracy especially, government by popular assemblies. We can't have that because we have inequality of wealth. John Adams, for example, he just said it straight out, majority rule. We can't have majority rule. We have one or…
…tax documents. And this remains true throughout history. I was actually going through just recently some of the writings of John Adams and others of the founding fathers, their reflections on democracy, which, of course, they were totally against. Those guys…
…of the founding fathers, their reflections on democracy, which, of course, they were totally against. Those guys hated democracy. And John Adams has this quote saying, well, we can't have majority vote. If we had majority vote, then we'd have 2 million…