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.
…fly, wouldn't you? And there was a time when it wasn't that way, even in the 19th century. I go back to Prince Kropotkin, who was both a great naturalist and a famous anarchist, who wrote a book called Mutual Aid. Most people don't really understand…
…Why do we do things for fun to begin with? Why do we do things for love, for pleasure? And again, I go back to Kropotkin. He says that if you're a social being, then if you do something for fun, doing it with someone else or doing it with a…
…didn't have genes yet. But then, you know, the Russians, there's a whole alternative school, and we've talked about cooperation, and Kropotkin, who was an anarchist, came out and sort of put a shot across the bow, actually, of the social Darwinist position…