“Second, we can now see more clearly that domination begins at home. The fact that these arrangements became subjects of political contestation does not mean they were political in origin. Slavery finds its origins in war. But everywhere we encounter it slavery is also, at first, a domestic institution. Hierarchy and property may derive from notions of the sacred, but the most brutal forms of exploitation have their origins in the most intimate of social relations: as perversions of nurture, love and caring. Certainly, those origins are not to be found in government.” GovernmentCareSlaveryAnarchismDomestic Book:The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity Source: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
“... most Amazonians don't want to give others the power to threaten them with physical injury if they don't do as they are told. Maybe we should better be asking what it says about ourselves that we feel this attitude needs any sort of explanation.” PoliticsPolitical PhilosophyAnarchismAnarchistAmazonians Book:Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology Source: Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
“Anarchism is surprisingly effective in solving actual problems largely because anarchists have thought a lot about solving actual problems on a micro level in ways that other political ideologies don't really feel they have to until after they seize state power.” WayFeelsStatesProblemPoliticalLevelsIdeologyAnarchismAnarchistPolitical Ideology Author:David Graeber
“The best way to think about anarchism is as a combination of three levels. On the one hand, the sort of instinctual revulsion against forms of inequality in power; on the other hand, a reappraisal of what one is already doing in egalitarian relations; and then the projection of these principles on all sorts of relations.” ThinkingWayHandsFormThreeLevelsPrinciplesRelationBest WayInequalityCombinationProjectionAnarchismRevulsion Author:David Graeber
“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.” FormMillionsCapitalismComplexesEverydayCommunismCapitalistAnarchismTotalityComplex Systems Author:David Graeber
“Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.” KnowsWellsStatesTogetherAnarchismAnthropologyAnthropologists Author:David Graeber
