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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Michael Hudson on how imposing austerity on other nations and having a Right-Wing foreign policy, can hurt the global economy.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

They want you to believe there is no alternative to Neoliberalism.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ann Pettifor explains that in order to understand the rise of Fascism and the rise of rage, one must understand the economic (and class) conditions that we are living through.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Howard Zinn was really one of the greatest writers.

“I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, if you worked hard you would become rich.
The meaning of that was if you were poor it was because you hadn't worked hard enough. I knew this was a lie, as I saw my father and millions of others, men and women who worked harder than anyone, harder than financiers and the politicians, - harder than anybody, still struggle in poverty.”
— Howard Zinn.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Cross over from the world of common sense into the world of nonsense, reclaim Poetic Technologies and put them to work for our wildest dreams! Event program - 1 pm: Help make Carnival costumes, props, puppets, decorations - 5 pm: Doors open with music, performances, mischief

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Carnival4David in London 2026 This Halloween, join the Museum of Care and David Graeber Institute for the Carnival in the spirit of David Graeber's works and ideas. Cross over from the world of common sense into the world of nonsense...

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One of the knock-on benefits of Universal Basic income, would be that people would not need to waste time on forms, and could use that time for projects, growing vegetables and many many more things.

"Being poor is actually a full-time job & being
broke is like a full-time job with the amount of
paperwork and the time going from office to
office proving what you have done.

With Universal Basic Income all that would
be eliminated with the time liberated to do
something socially productive."
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— David Graeber

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Michael Hudson on private debts & the challenge of mortgage debt on real estate.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

From David Graeber's piece, 'Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!' davidgraeber.org/articles/are...

"We have not even begun to think about
what our lives could be like if technology
were really marshaled to fit human needs.

How many hours would we really need to
work in order to maintain a functional
society — that is, if we got rid of all the
useless or destructive occupations like
telemarketers, financial analysts, prison
guards, bureaucrats & politicians while
turning our best scientific minds away
from working on space weaponry or
stock market systems to mechanizing
away dangerous or annoying tasks
like resource mining or cleaning
the bathroom.”
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- David Graeber

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At our recent talk, Michael Hudson explained why Banks lend money and the link to price inflation.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In our recent talk, Kathleen Tyson explained her admiration for how China managed down a massive real estate bubble.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

David Graeber wrote a piece about bullying. It was called "The Bully’s Pulpit." It is a good read if you are looking for something to read today. This is an extract from that piece. And here is the link to the full piece: davidgraeber.org/articles/the...

No one would deny, of course, that humans are flawed creatures. Just about every human language has some analogue of the English “humane” or expressions like “to treat someone like a human being,” implying that simply recognizing another creature as a fellow human entails a responsibility to treat them with a certain minimum of kindness, consideration, and respect. It is obvious, however, that nowhere do humans consistently live up to that responsibility. And when we fail, we shrug and say we’re “only human.” To be human, then, is both to have ideals and to fail to live up to them.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Brian Eno on how Lula helped the poor, which in turn stimulated small businesses.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Despite what the Right-Wing say, high taxes on Corporations are not always bad for America.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is from, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. David Graeber wrote the piece back in 2004.

"It’s not just that anarchism does not tend to have much use for high theory. It’s that it is primarily concerned with forms of practice; it insists, before anything else, that one’s means must be consonant with one’s ends; one cannot create freedom through authoritarian means; in fact, as much as possible, one must oneself, in one’s relations with one’s friends and allies, embody the society one wishes to create."

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Whilst this system is very much not working for the majority of people, for the small minority who govern this system, it absolutely is working. So all of thethings that make us think of chaos and catastrophe and apocalypse are creating profits for those at the top." @graceblakeley.substack.com

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Politicians make excuses like "there is no money for the poor" because they do not want to admit how they have been bought. Applies to the UK, to the USA and many more nations.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In a talk with held with Kathleen Tyson she explained the reality of the Housing Market.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It is often presented to us that what is good for Wall Street is good for us. David Graeber explained that this is not really true.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is a pretty funny story David Graeber explained from his book, the Democracy Project. We have all gone through 'late fees' and felt we did something wrong. Just be aware that if this happens to you again that the companies know exactly what they are doing.

I remember I once allowed a Macy’s clerk to talk me into
acquiring a Macy’s charge card, in order to buy sunglasses.

I sent in a check to pay the charge before leaving the country
for an extended trip, but apparently miscalculated by some
$2.75 when figuring the tax; when I returned a few months
later, I discovered I had something like $500 in late fees.

We’re not in the habit of calculating such numbers because
they are, even more than debts, seen as the wages of sin:
you only pay them because you did something wrong. In fact,
the entire system is now geared toward ensuring we make
such mistakes, since the entire system of corporate profits
depends on them.
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- David Graeber

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

GDP is not the best way to measure how well an economy is really doing - let alone measure how well a country is doing in general. Professor Michael Hudson explains more

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Carnival 2026 is coming to London! This year, it’s a Halloween edition, and our theme is Poetic Technologies. 31 October 2026 Club Silly Arch 555, 18 Valentia Pl, London SW9 8PJ 1 pm till late

As the border between worlds becomes thinner around this time of year, we invite you to cross over with us from the world of common sense into the world of nonsense.

Join us to reclaim poetic technologies and put them to work for our wildest dreams!

We’re preparing an exciting programme:

→ Creative workshops: giant cardboard sculptures, puppets, nonsensical poetry, songs for action and more

→ Thought-provoking activities: futuristic coffee-ground readings, 3D-printed musical instruments, live music jam guided by the machines

→ Performances: Stop Shopping Choir, Algorave - verses and live-coding performance

→ Carnival makeover: Enter as yourself, emerge as someone else — our dressing-up area awaits!

→ Carnival procession — join us as we take to the streets of Brixton

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We need to be prepared to deal with the modern form of Fascism that now emerges.

We have to be prepared to deal with the modern form of Fascism.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

From David Graeber's book, The Utopia Of Rules.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

At some point the Parties that put in all their effort to destroy socialism and destroy any hope of a more fair society need to look in the mirror and see their role in the rise of Fascism.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Fascism in Britain has not come from nothing. It is the result of decades of Thatcherism and then Austerity.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

On the 17th September, we have our next discussion with Michael Hudson. He will be joined by Kathleen Tyson. They will discuss the economy at the end of the world.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

David Graeber just called it bribery. Obviously in the US, they rarely use such a phrase to describe the system of lobbying. Prof Michael Hudson explains more.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Here's our 1st letter of the new season: announcing the next conversation in our Economy of the End of the World series. The world feels like a nightmare thickening around us. We can only hope we'll wake—that the clouds will part. Sign up for our newsletter here. actionnetwork.org/forms/subscr...

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In a conversation David Graeber had with Thomas Piketty, he had this to say about Neoliberalism. davidgraeber.org/articles/soa...

In a conversation David Graeber had with Thomas Piketty, he had this to say about Neoliberalism.

https://davidgraeber.org/articles/soak-the-rich/

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It is a pity that the BBC never mention these details and stories of people on welfare when discussions related to welfare arise.

"Most rock bands started on public relief. If you give money to working class kids, a significant number of them will form bands, and a few of those bands will be amazing, and it will benefit the country a 1000 times more than all of those kids would have done had they been lifting boxes or whatever they’re making them do now as welfare conditionality."

— David Graeber

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

For anyone on here who is a political activist, we just want to post about David Graeber's book, Revolutions in Reverse. In the book, he writes about many themes related to activism, politics, violence and art. Check it out!

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

From: A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse davidgraeber.org/articles/a-p...

"Neoliberalism has always been wracked by a central paradox.
It declares that economic imperatives are to take priority over all others. Politics itself is just a matter of creating the conditions for growing the economy by allowing the magic of the marketplace to do its work.

All other hopes and dreams—of equality, of security—are to be sacrificed for the primary goal of economic productivity. But global economic performance over the last few decades has been decidedly mediocre.

With one or two spectacular exceptions (notably China, which significantly ignored most neoliberal prescriptions), growth rates have been far below what they were in the days of the old-fashioned, state-directed, welfare-state-oriented capitalism of the 50s, 60s & even 70s."

— David Graeber

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Quiz question. Can you name who these two people are?

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Plus the super-rich tend to have pretty bad taste.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Back in 2015, David Graeber wrote, 'The Bully’s Pulpit: On the elementary structure of domination.' This is a quote from that piece. davidgraeber.org/articles/the...

“The overwhelming majority of bullying incidents take place in front of an audience with private persecution relatively rare. Much of bullying is about humiliation, and the effects cannot really be produced without someone to witness them. Sometimes, onlookers actively abet the bully, laughing, goading, or joining in. More often, the audience is passively acquiescent.

Only rarely does anyone step in to defend a classmate being threatened, mocked, or physically attacked.”

— David Graeber

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Work should not be a place where we suffer. David Graeber thought we could imagine the world of work to be something better.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

ANARCHISM, ANTHROPOLOGY AND POLITICAL IMAGINATION With @nikadubrovsky and @Betealbernaz August 21st.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

David Graeber on the definition of Capitalism Ayn Rand fans may be offended.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Caring too much. That’s the curse of the working classes davidgraeber.org/articles/car...

"Feminists have long since pointed out that those on the bottom of any unequal social arrangement tend to think about, and therefore care about, those on top more than those on top think about, or care about, them.

Women everywhere tend to think and know more about men’s lives than men do about women, just as black people know more about white people’s, employees about employers’, and the poor about the rich."

- David Graeber

https://davidgraeber.org/articles/caring-too-much-thats-the-curse-of-the-working-classes/

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We held a discussion with Prof Michael Hudson and Steve Keen about Debt. It'll be released on our Youtube channel. Here is a clip from the discussion.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The reality of modern work and of the opportunities available.

"Unless you get very lucky, your choices are largely limited to two options. You can get a basically bullshit job, which will pay the rent but leaves you wracked with the guilty feeling that you are being forced, against your will, to be a fraud and a parasite. Or, you can get a helpful, useful job taking care of people, making, moving or maintaining things that people want or need - but then, likely you'll be paid so little you won't be able to take care of your own family."

— David Graeber

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Despite what Water Privatization did in the UK, the believers in the miracles of Privatization still believe. They really do have quite a lot in common with a Religious Cult.

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