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Traditional hedonism...was based on the direct experience of pleasure: wine, women and song; sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll; or whatever the local variant. The problem, from a capitalist perspective, is that there are inherent limits to all this. People become sated, bored...Modern self-illusory hedonism solves this dilemma because here, what one is really consuming are fantasies and day-dreams about what having a certain product would be like.

David Graeber's Popular Quotes

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

- David Graeber

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

- David Graeber

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

- David Graeber

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

- David Graeber

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.

- David Graeber

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

- David Graeber

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

- David Graeber

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

- David Graeber

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…

- David Graeber