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David Graeber

anthropologist, university teacher, writer, trade unionist, social anthropologist, cultural anthropologist, ethnologist

1961 – 2020

David Rolfe Graeber was an American anthropologist and left-wing anarchist social and political activist. His influential work in social and economic anthropology, particularly his books Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), The Utopia of Rules (2015), Bullshit Jobs (2018), and The Dawn of Everything (2021), and his leading role in the Occupy movement earned him recognition as one of the foremost anthropologists and left-wing thinkers of his time.

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We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.

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

David Graeber