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2026-05-13 19:52:09 CEST

“No, it’s not ‘normal’ for humans to be in competition all the time.
It’s not normal to work for most of your waking hours of the day.
It’s not normal to be stressed 24/7.
Stop taking a few hundred years of capitalism and pretending that’s just how being human is. It’s not.”

2026-05-12 16:56:33 CEST

We could employ everyone to build social housing, hospitals, new railways, and schools. Instead, trillions are poured into war, bailouts, and corporate subsidies while basic infrastructure crumbles and millions struggle to survive.
This is why we need an alternative to neoliberalism.

2026-05-12 03:15:08 CEST

Maybe it's worth thinking of alternatives to the current economic system.
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2026-05-11 04:05:54 CEST

The likes of Musk and Thiel want us to be fighting with each other and hating each other so we don't unite against them.
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2026-05-09 19:54:07 CEST

Peoples' experiences in the world of work are different to the myths about meritocracy that we are told.
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2026-05-08 00:06:03 CEST

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, well David has been proven right.
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2026-05-07 19:31:22 CEST

Sometimes it is not complicated.
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2026-05-07 02:40:15 CEST

"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 02:11:59 CEST

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 04:59:55 CEST

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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2026-05-01 21:08:42 CEST

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 02:34:52 CEST

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2026-04-29 06:16:46 CEST

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.

2026-04-11 19:46:58 CEST

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2026-03-30 05:23:39 CEST

The likes of Peter Thiel and El*n Musk have their 'solutions.'
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2026-03-30 04:09:46 CEST

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.

2026-03-26 16:40:12 CET

Work could be fulfilling.
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2026-03-25 16:58:23 CET

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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2026-03-20 16:46:44 CET

Imagine people could make up their own minds about what it was that they would pursue.
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2026-03-08 23:31:22 CET

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2026-03-03 03:12:16 CET

He said this back in 2020.
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2026-02-25 02:34:56 CET

We need to stop measuring the economy by how wealthy the top 1% are doing or by how much the stock market has increased.
Instead we need to start measuring a country’s success by its standard of living, its access to healthcare/education and its the levels of homelessness/poverty.

2026-02-21 17:31:18 CET

Michael Hudson explains how Trump's awfulness motivates countries to produce their own food and have other policies that move them away from Neo-liberalism.
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2026-02-19 17:28:09 CET

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2026-02-15 16:20:07 CET

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2026-02-12 05:34:18 CET

From, 'Managerial Feudalism to the Revolt of the Caring Classes (Graeber; 2019).
https://davidgraeber.org/articles/from-managerial-feudalism-to-the-revolt-of-the-caring-classes/
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2026-02-09 04:37:53 CET

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2026-02-08 17:28:56 CET

David Graeber explained why jobs that often do quite a lot of damage to society, those jobs tend to be very highly paid.
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2026-02-07 18:06:56 CET

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2026-02-06 18:35:09 CET

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2026-02-05 02:38:04 CET

"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. It has no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression."
- Erich Fromm
(1900 to 1980)

2026-01-31 02:06:36 CET

Most work is caring for other people.
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2026-01-29 18:23:03 CET

If you are interested in Decolonization and African History, we have a stream about to start on the topics!
https://www.youtube.com/live/RvoB6mgqck0

2026-01-26 08:14:29 CET

The actor, Edward Norton, calls for a General Strike!
"What they are doing in Minnesota with the strike needs to expand. We should be talking about a national General and Economic Strike."
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2026-01-26 05:12:34 CET

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2026-01-22 23:48:53 CET

"Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced.
If we really want to understand this situation, we have to begin by understanding that for decades we have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness, a kind of giant machine that is designed, first and foremost, to destroy any sense of possible alternative futures."
- David Graeber
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2026-01-16 02:20:04 CET

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2026-01-14 17:31:21 CET

Our generation can learn from those like Erich Fromm who lived in Germany when the Nazis rose to power.
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2026-01-10 18:14:33 CET

Howard Zinn would have a lot to say about the world in 2026 if he was here today.
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2026-01-10 05:19:06 CET

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2026-01-09 01:58:11 CET

Hannah Arendt saw the terror of Nazis in the 1920s and 30s and was imprisoned by the Gestapo.
She knew the importance of standing up to Fascism and to Fascist Terror.
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2026-01-08 16:53:28 CET

Don't forget too the role of FoxNews and other media platforms in all this.
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2026-01-08 00:54:37 CET

One thing today has shown is that ordinary people who are politically active protesting their Govt, they are far braver than any of the career politicians running the Govt.
And frankly without such brave people, we would not even have the limited rights that we do have.

2026-01-04 16:34:37 CET

During times like this, the wisdom of John Pilger is very much needed.
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2026-01-02 21:01:23 CET

The UK is a bizarre country where its seen as just fine & normal for people to sleep in tents in the freezing cold. Temperatures to hit -4 this week
But the idea Billionaires could be less rich. Not poor, not struggling, just a bit less rich, this is seen as extreme and radical
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2026-01-02 16:30:07 CET

There is a great deal of work that is not bullshit and that very much helps people. Even if not highly paid (and not appreciated), such work is essential for society.
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2026-01-02 15:46:08 CET

At the end of the month we will have an event on Decolonisation.
Kadija George Sesay will speak about the Decolonisation of Radical Black Publishers in a Pan-African World
https://davidgraeber.institute/kadija-george-sesay-the-decolonisation-of-radical-black-publishers-in-a-pan-african-world/

2025-12-26 16:13:23 CET

Revolutions in Reverse is a book from David Graeber about politics, violence and art.
If you are searching for a book to read for 2026 that will make you think about different possibilities for this world - make you think about alternatives to capitalism, this might be a good pick.
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2025-12-24 21:17:52 CET

The only thing we can imagine is catastrophe.
https://davidgraeber.org/articles/the-only-thing-we-can-imagine-is-catastrophe/
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2025-12-24 16:30:48 CET

Household debt, the debt people have with the bank, or on a mortgage or on credit cards.........this is nothing like the debt that Government has.
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2025-12-21 16:29:37 CET

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2025-12-09 18:51:11 CET

About to start
Come and see our livestream with Prof Steve Keen and ask your questions in the chat!
link to stream: https://youtu.be/vSpGJOnklwU

2025-12-08 18:50:01 CET

Our livestraem about David Graeber's work is starting now
Please come along and ask your questions in the chat!!!
https://www.youtube.com/live/4-AlIT-GnQk

2025-12-06 19:24:04 CET

We have a number of interesting livestreams coming up
This includes one with Michael Hudson on Wednesday 10th Dec
He will talk about the changing world order, Colonialism and the end of capitalism. He will also answer questions from the Youtube chat.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Zvy3PAQtih8

2025-12-04 02:43:00 CET

David Graeber once wrote an important piece about the power of protest and the police. This is an extract.
https://davidgraeber.org/articles/on-the-phenomenology-of-giant-puppets-broken-windows-imaginary-jars-of-urine-and-the-cosmological-role-of-the-police-in-american-culture/
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2025-11-30 15:01:46 CET

Back in 1949, Albert Einstein wrote WHY SOCIALISM.
Here is an extract.
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2025-11-30 01:47:54 CET

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.

2025-11-21 15:26:50 CET

We recently published a lesser known article by David Graeber written in 2013 called - Buncombe.
Here is the piece and an extract.
https://davidgraeber.org/articles/buncombe
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2025-11-17 15:38:42 CET

There will be an online event by the David Graeber Institute on December 8th.
Cory Doctorow and Brian Eno will speak about poetic technologies and the work of David Graeber
Save The Date!
https://www.youtube.com/live/4-AlIT-GnQk

2025-11-08 16:25:29 CET

Is this new system we are moving to even Capitalism,
or is just Feudalism with modern technology?
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2025-11-07 14:53:31 CET

Yesterday, we held a livestream with Prof Tim Ingold about the topic of 'Art In A Possible World.'
If you could not make it, you can view the stream here on our youtube channel.
https://youtu.be/eJc2fWZLj2g

2025-10-31 17:23:02 CET

It is a neo-liberal myth, the idea of an unregulated bank.
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2025-10-27 02:49:43 CET

Politics must be more than a choice between a Corporate Democrat and a Trumpist Fascist.
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2025-10-26 02:31:00 CET

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

2025-10-23 15:35:32 CEST

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2025-10-15 17:07:25 CEST

Modern capitalism has more in common with Feudalism and the oldstyle slave-system than most people realize.
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2025-10-12 18:38:50 CEST

Yes
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2025-10-07 22:00:35 CEST

"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

2025-10-06 15:51:57 CEST

Always worth stopping to think about what Noam Chomsky has to say.
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2025-10-05 17:27:03 CEST

"Cancel all student loan debt? But
that would be unfair to all those
people who struggled for years
to pay back their student loans!
Let me assure the reader that,
as someone who struggled for
years to pay back his student
loans and finally did so, this
argument makes about as
much sense as saying it would
be unfair to a mugging victim
not to mug their neighbors too."
- David Graeber

2025-10-05 17:10:04 CEST

Yes
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2025-10-02 22:22:36 CEST

A pitch for Universal Basic Income from the book Bullshit Jobs.
Have a read.
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2025-10-02 17:12:57 CEST

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.
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2025-09-26 15:48:36 CEST

Hopelessness is manufactured. Hopelessness is part of Neo-Liberalism.
They want you to believe there is no hope and no possible alternative.
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2025-09-23 04:45:34 CEST

The destructive nature of the current feudalized version of capitalism needs to be talked about more on social media.
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2025-09-13 01:57:59 CEST

Neo-liberalism cannot have its biggest victims being politically active.
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2025-09-12 01:59:05 CEST

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2025-09-08 03:43:37 CEST

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2025-09-05 17:43:16 CEST

Hopelessness is an important element of Neo-Liberalism
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2025-09-04 02:44:29 CEST

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2025-08-28 17:05:57 CEST

When buying an apartment is becoming impossible, we need to start discussing what went wrong.
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2025-08-26 19:38:54 CEST

David Graeber explained how in our system, the poor are always expected to pay their Debts and those in Debt are made to feel as if they did something wrong - almost like they committed a crime.
But of course, corporations are never expected to pay their Debts.
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2025-08-20 03:40:26 CEST

“This, without a doubt, is neoliberalism’s
single most damaging legacy: the
realization of its bleak vision has
isolated us enough from one another
that it became possible to convince
us that we are not just incapable of
self-preservation but fundamentally
not worth saving.”
- Naomi Klein

2025-08-19 15:52:28 CEST

So much of this economic system now resembles Feudalism.
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2025-08-19 15:18:01 CEST

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 22:39:17 CEST

"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

2025-08-07 13:48:08 CEST

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2025-08-04 13:32:26 CEST

This message is now more relevant than ever.
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2025-08-02 20:18:45 CEST

Instead of the daily stock market - we could have an indicator for the number of homeless people?
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2025-07-31 13:45:56 CEST

John Pilger really was a great thinker and a great man.
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2025-07-29 22:56:15 CEST

David Graeber always mentioned work is mostly about caring and helping. Caring and helping others.
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2025-07-26 15:14:25 CEST

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2025-07-16 10:44:26 CEST

"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 12:10:34 CEST

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 15:26:11 CEST

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.

2025-07-12 14:41:51 CEST

At some point, the Democrats need to be less awful.
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2025-07-11 14:47:08 CEST

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 16:51:47 CEST

From David Graeber's 2013 piece - A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse
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2025-07-07 16:43:11 CEST

Think about this for a moment.
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2025-07-01 11:21:11 CEST

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