Notices by David Graeber Institute (dgi@graeber.social)

The problem of Labour now being the Starmer-Party in a few words.

In 2011, David Graeber published; Debt: The First 5000 Years.

It is one of those books where you learn a lot of interesting history that is not mentioned on the BBC. Here is an extract from the book.

When politicians like Keir Starmer claim there is no money, it is always worth recalling what money actually is.

Michael Hudson's words are always worth taking a minute to read.

This is something everybody should always keep in mind - especially when on Twitter!

It does not have to be this way.

If the events of this week and the reality of the Private Healthcare Industry have shown us anything, it is that we need to think about other ways of doing things.

"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).

https://voidnetwork.gr/2011/09/22/the-machinery-of-hopelessness-by-david-graeber/

https://davidgraeber.org/articles/neoliberalism-or-the-bureaucratization-of-the-world/

On Monday at 8pm (London time) & 3pm (EST) we host a Zoom talk about David Graeber's essay; "I didn't understand how widespread rape was."

If you want to join in, you can at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sduCrpzIpEtNhwl3XSikK0t5zcV6xJO2R#/registration

"Is is possible to imagine a world without work?

Or, at least, a world in which work is not romanticized, is not treated as defining element of social and individual achievement?

James Livingston predicts that we need to prepare for a postwork world.

And David Graeber has challenged us to imagine alternatives to organization by bureaucracy, credit, and corporations."