David Graeber Quotes About Communism
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We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we already live communism and anarchism in a million forms everyday.
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What we're already doing is communism. The first step we have to make is to realize that we're already closer to it than we think.
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All societies are based on a sort of minimum level of communism. Otherwise, you couldn't have any social relations at all.
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Now, we're used to thinking of communism as being once-upon-a-time-all-things-were-owned-in-common, maybe-someday-this-will-come-again. And people agree that there is a sort of epic narrative going on here. I think we should just throw this narrative out, it's irrelevant anyway, and who cares who owns things? I don't. You know, we all own the White House. So what? I still can't go in, right?
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Communism is the basis of all sociality and it's the basis of cooperation.
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I think we need to think of capitalism as a very bad way of organizing communism. Much of what we do is already communism, so just expand it.
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