c/david-graeber
Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
…for the land records or government tax base databases or things like that but the debt records are always first of Moses Finley, the great classicist, I think once said that there was basically one revolutionary program and all of that technically. It was…
…of themselves. The problem is it tends to explode. And this is the reason why, it seems, every great classicist, Moses Finley, once said, There's only one revolutionary program in the ancient world. Abolish the debts, redistribute the land. Almost every…
…their lives. It's also the focus of the vast majority of insurrections and rebellions that have happened over world history. Moses Finley once said that there was basically one revolutionary program in all of antiquity, cancel the debts and redistribute the…
…their lives. It's also the focus of the vast majority of insurrections and rebellions that have happened over world history. Moses Finley once said that there was basically one revolutionary program in all of antiquity, cancel the debts and redistribute the…
…workplace democracy. They're demanding the means to exist. And he actually went back to a book that I had taken from Moses Finley. What was that? A book that I had taken from Moses Finley, that in the ancient world, there's one revolutionary program,…
…went back to a book that I had taken from Moses Finley. What was that? A book that I had taken from Moses Finley, that in the ancient world, there's one revolutionary program, which was essentially cancel the debts and redistribute the land. Which is,…
…They're not about caste systems. They're not about serfdom, absolute declared systems of inequality. They're always about debt. Moses Finley, the great classicist, once said that there was basically one revolutionary program throughout antiquity, which is cancel…