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2026-05-07 22:06:03 UTC

When David Graeber warned Labour not to abandon its principles, give up socialism and become a Centrist Party, he was ignored and even mocked by the Labour-Right.
But his prediction that abandoning socialism would ruin the party was correct, and history has proven David to be right.
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2026-05-07 17:31:22 UTC

Sometimes it is not complicated.
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2026-05-07 00:40:15 UTC

"Human beings are projects of mutual creation. Most of the work we do is on each other. The working classes just do a disproportionate share of that work.
They are the caring classes, and always have been. It is just the incessant demonisation directed at the poor by those who benefit from their caring work that makes it difficult, to acknowledge it."
- David Graeber

2026-05-07 00:11:59 UTC

We could easily feed, house and provide healthcare to everyone many times over.
Overpopulation arguments ignore the elephant in the room, which is the unequal distribution and consumption of resources.
The earth can support billions, but it cannot support billionaires.

2026-05-03 02:59:55 UTC

Happy Birthday to Sir David Attenborough who turns 100 years old this week.
He is someone whose words we should all stop and think about.
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2026-05-02 22:45:49 UTC

From David Graeber's book, Utopia of Rules.
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2026-05-01 19:08:42 UTC

Under modern capitalism, new technology that should be used to shorten the workweek and make life easier for people, instead is used to throw workers out of jobs, boost stock prices and to enrich billionaires.

2026-05-01 00:34:52 UTC

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2026-04-30 22:21:01 UTC

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2026-04-29 04:16:46 UTC

A reminder for today that all the aspects of our economic system are made up and we can have a new and better system if we want.
It does not have to be this way.

2026-04-22 15:18:39 UTC

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2026-03-30 02:09:46 UTC

If people spend most of their money on Rent or paying Debts, then they won't have much money for food, for pubs, clothes, to go to concerts etc.....
Even if you believe in Capitalism, surely you must admit that the current system is not working.

2026-03-27 20:30:41 UTC

In Central London, you have some of the most expensive properties in the world, alongside many people sleeping in tents.
This helps to understand what Yanis Varoufakis means by Techno-Feudalism.
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2026-03-26 16:05:20 UTC

Modern Capitalism resemble Feudalism now for than ever.
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2026-03-25 15:58:23 UTC

Agree or disagree, we need to be discussing Universal Basic Income.
It is too important of a subject just to scroll past.
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2026-03-08 22:31:22 UTC

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2026-03-04 17:06:28 UTC

"Imagining a world with no bullshit jobs"
https://davidgraeber.org/interviews/imagining-a-world-with-no-bullshit-jobs/
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2026-03-03 02:12:16 UTC

He said this back in 2020.
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2026-01-12 02:17:18 UTC

Giant Puppets Protesting ICE in Minneapolis.
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2025-11-30 00:47:54 UTC

We could house everyone. We could feed everyone. We could care for everyone. We could build devices designed to last as long as possible. We could align our manufacturing around the needs of the people and the planet.
We materially have the resources to do so.
That's why leftists are so angry. The resources we need to build a world everyone can thrive in literally already exist. We are just using them mostly to pamper the rich or murder the poor.

2025-11-16 00:31:57 UTC

Neo-Liberalism, Trickle-down economics, Thatcherism or whatever you call it really has more in common with fundamentalist religion than anything else.
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2025-10-26 01:31:00 UTC

Neo-Liberalism has transferred so much of our wealth to the Billionaire class while telling us its socialism that we should be afraid of.

2025-10-12 16:38:50 UTC

Yes
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2025-10-06 13:51:57 UTC

Always worth stopping to think about what Noam Chomsky has to say.
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2025-09-08 01:43:37 UTC

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2025-08-28 15:05:57 UTC

When buying an apartment is becoming impossible, we need to start discussing what went wrong.
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2025-08-19 13:52:28 UTC

So much of this economic system now resembles Feudalism.
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2025-08-19 13:18:01 UTC

The huge bureaucracy that exists in our system to make the poor feel bad about themselves would not be money and time wasted with UBI.
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2025-08-12 20:39:17 UTC

"Any system that reduces
the world to numbers can
only be held in place by
weapons, whether these
are swords and clubs, or
nowadays, smart bombs
from unmanned drones.”
- David Graeber

2025-08-08 19:01:40 UTC

“Everyday we wake up
and collectively make
a world together; but
which one of us, left to
our own devices, would
ever decide they wanted
to make a world like this
one?”
— David Graeber, “Bullshit Jobs: A Theory”

2025-08-07 11:48:08 UTC

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2025-08-02 18:18:45 UTC

Instead of the daily stock market - we could have an indicator for the number of homeless people?
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2025-07-29 20:56:15 UTC

David Graeber always mentioned work is mostly about caring and helping. Caring and helping others.
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2025-07-16 08:44:26 UTC

"In studying economic history, we
tend to systematically ignore the
role of violence as well as the
absolutely central role that war
and slavery played in creating and
shaping the basic institutions of
what we now call ‘the economy.'
- David Graeber

2025-07-15 10:10:34 UTC

With Neo-liberalism, people lost healthcare, housing is unaffordable, debt ruins lives and Fascism emerges yet the media tells us its socialism that we should fear.

2025-07-14 13:26:11 UTC

Shock Therapy was once used to cure patients. It always made the patient worse yet some 'experts' claimed the solution was even more shock therapy
Many economists now do the same saying the solution to Neo-Liberalism's decades of failure is even more Neo-Liberalism.

2025-07-13 14:01:25 UTC

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2025-07-11 12:47:08 UTC

If privatisation, starving the poor and transferring more wealth to the rich worked then the economy would be massively BOOMING!
We've been doing it for 40+ years and all its done is make everything worse. Only an idiot would think more neo-liberalism is the solution.

2025-07-07 14:51:47 UTC

From David Graeber's 2013 piece - A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse
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2025-07-02 09:41:52 UTC

Right-Wing Libertarian Garbage Is Ruining The Economy!
Prof Steve Keen explains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl5_uzh9DU8

2025-07-01 09:21:11 UTC

Michael Hudson explains how "Financial Managers" took away much of the independence of Global South countries via the use of DEBT!
Money that should have been spent to develop countries - went instead to the creditors of the debts!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEi4na4mfgk

2025-06-30 09:28:52 UTC

Later today we are holding a talk about Debt!
Steve Keen and Michael Hudson will speak.
It'll be streamed live on our Youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/live/FAgj66zNB_w?si=_vknwZphO18YTqUS

2025-06-26 12:20:36 UTC

It is the 99% v the 1%
All the propaganda out there is to get all of us in the 99% to fight among each other so we don't unite to defeat the 1%.

2025-06-21 10:08:08 UTC

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2025-06-17 15:23:02 UTC

From Bullshit Jobs, page 143.
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2025-06-10 21:04:06 UTC

It is basically textbook how the police and media behave during protest movements.
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2025-06-08 22:12:24 UTC

Concerning the Violent Peace-Police
https://davidgraeber.org/articles/concerning-the-violent-peace-police/
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2025-06-02 22:36:34 UTC

At some point, our society will need to stop ignoring this injustice.
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2025-05-16 10:05:07 UTC

From the intro to Bullshit Jobs.
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2025-04-28 17:45:37 UTC

Despite what El*n M*sk fans claim, what is interesting is that financialization of public services has led to more bureaucracy and more admin.
It is a theme certainly worth diving deeper into.
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2025-04-22 15:04:23 UTC

Extract from a David Graeber called - Beyond Power / Knowledge exploration of the relation of power, ignorance and stupidity.
You can read the full paper here: https://davidgraeber.org/papers/beyond-power-knowledge-exploration-of-the-relation-of-power-ignorance-and-stupidity/
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2025-04-19 10:37:39 UTC

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2025-03-29 13:19:57 UTC

From the book Bullshit Jobs.
Page 213
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2025-03-18 10:36:03 UTC

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2025-03-16 02:10:42 UTC

When asked about the benefits to society of Universal Basic Income, David Graeber mentioned this.
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2025-03-13 00:05:28 UTC

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.
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2025-03-08 23:19:11 UTC

Hopelessness is manufactured.
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2025-03-04 17:21:23 UTC

It is worth remembering that some of the most essential people in the economy are often very badly paid and generally treated with arbitrariness and disrespect.
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2025-03-02 21:08:12 UTC

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2025-02-28 03:34:04 UTC

David Graeber provides another way that we can view the economy.
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2025-02-24 02:45:27 UTC

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2025-02-19 11:36:22 UTC

The limits our current system imposes on people in the world of work are a shame.
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2025-01-24 13:58:03 UTC

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.
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