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The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel (all evidence suggests true sadists are an extremely small proportion of the population overall), but how we have come to create institutions that encourage such behavior and that suggest cruel people are in some ways admirable-or at least as deserving of sympathy as those they push around.

David Graeber's Popular Quotes

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

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Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

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Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.

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As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

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There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

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It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

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Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.

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We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil e…

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Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

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