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

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"The police don’t spend their time fighting violent criminals. Instead, they
enforce administrative regulations & endless rules. Rather than protecting us
against violence they bring the threat of violence to situations where it'd never
occur otherwise. Most incidents of domestic violence, a drunken brawl, or
gang fights, they don’t get involved however try driving down the street with
no license plates: how long it'll be before you're surrounded by people
with weapons."

- David Graeber

In David Graeber's book, The Democracy Project, he mentioned ]Liberal-Centrists were not the most reliable allies in political movements.

This history is worth taking into account for those active in any political movement.

Hopelessness is manufactured. Hopelessness is part of Neo-Liberalism.

They want you to believe there is no hope and no possible alternative.

So much of this economic system now resembles Feudalism.

This message is now more relevant than ever.

Instead of the daily stock market - we could have an indicator for the number of homeless people?

David Graeber always mentioned work is mostly about caring and helping. Caring and helping others.

It is basically textbook how the police and media behave during protest movements.

He said this in 2018, but this is exactly what is happening in the UK with the Labour Government and elsewhere

From the book, Bullshit Jobs.

This is from David Graeber's Against Economics. You can read the full piece, on our website.

https://davidgraeber.org/articles/against-economics/

From: 'Culture as creative refusal.' (2013 by David Graber)

https://davidgraeber.org/papers/culture-as-creative-refusal/

"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).

The modern economy is resembling more and more the old feudal system.

From David Graeber's 2013 piece - A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse

On April 4th, we are going to provide a lecture by Michael Hudson about Money, Debt and Modern Capitalism.

The lecture will be held on Zoom. If you'd like to come along and get involved in the Q&A, you can register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9jrYrfYgSMizi6PRsnDo4A#/registration

When asked about the benefits to society of Universal Basic Income, David Graeber mentioned this.

It is always worth remembering that the level of someone's pay is not an accurate measure to their value to society and importance in the economy.

How has everything gone so wrong in the last few decades? David Graeber gives us a clue as to what has happened!