Nostr notes by David Graeber Institute

The likes of Peter Thiel and El*n Musk have their ...

2026-03-30T03:23:39Z

The likes of Peter Thiel and El*n Musk have their 'solutions.'

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2026-02-15T15:20:07Z

From, 'Managerial Feudalism to the Revolt of the Caring ...

2026-02-12T04:34:18Z

From, 'Managerial Feudalism to the Revolt of the Caring Classes (Graeber; 2019).

https://davidgraeber.org/articles/from-managerial-feudalism-to-the-revolt-of-the-caring-classes/

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2026-02-09T03:37:53Z

David Graeber explained why jobs that often do quite a lot of ...

2026-02-08T16:28:56Z

David Graeber explained why jobs that often do quite a lot of damage to society, those jobs tend to be very highly paid.

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2026-02-07T17:06:56Z

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2026-02-06T17:35:09Z

"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an ...

2026-02-05T01:38:04Z

"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. It has no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression."

- Erich Fromm
(1900 to 1980)

Most work is caring for other people. ...

2026-01-31T01:06:36Z

Most work is caring for other people.

If you are interested in Decolonization and African History, we ...

2026-01-29T17:23:03Z

If you are interested in Decolonization and African History, we have a stream about to start on the topics!

https://www.youtube.com/live/RvoB6mgqck0

The actor, Edward Norton, calls for a General Strike! "What ...

2026-01-26T07:14:29Z

The actor, Edward Norton, calls for a General Strike!

"What they are doing in Minnesota with the strike needs to expand. We should be talking about a national General and Economic Strike."

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2026-01-26T04:12:34Z

"Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced. If we ...

2026-01-22T22:48:53Z

"Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced.

If we really want to understand this situation, we have to begin by understanding that for decades we have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness, a kind of giant machine that is designed, first and foremost, to destroy any sense of possible alternative futures."

- David Graeber

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2026-01-16T01:20:04Z

ICE attack teachers, carers, cab drivers, supermarket staff and ...

2026-01-15T03:46:21Z

ICE attack teachers, carers, cab drivers, supermarket staff and even nurses, people who keep the economy going and provide huge value to society

On the other hand ICE provide no value to society with their work actively making the world a worse place

Being an ICE agent really is the ultimate bullshit job.

Our generation can learn from those like Erich Fromm who lived in ...

2026-01-14T16:31:21Z

Our generation can learn from those like Erich Fromm who lived in Germany when the Nazis rose to power.

Howard Zinn would have a lot to say about the world in 2026 if he ...

2026-01-10T17:14:33Z

Howard Zinn would have a lot to say about the world in 2026 if he was here today.

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2026-01-10T04:19:06Z

Hannah Arendt saw the terror of Nazis in the 1920s and 30s and ...

2026-01-09T00:58:11Z

Hannah Arendt saw the terror of Nazis in the 1920s and 30s and was imprisoned by the Gestapo.

She knew the importance of standing up to Fascism and to Fascist Terror.

Don't forget too the role of FoxNews and other media ...

2026-01-08T15:53:28Z

Don't forget too the role of FoxNews and other media platforms in all this.

One thing today has shown is that ordinary people who are ...

2026-01-07T23:54:37Z

One thing today has shown is that ordinary people who are politically active protesting their Govt, they are far braver than any of the career politicians running the Govt.

And frankly without such brave people, we would not even have the limited rights that we do have.

During times like this, the wisdom of John Pilger is very much ...

2026-01-04T15:34:37Z

During times like this, the wisdom of John Pilger is very much needed.

The UK is a bizarre country where its seen as just fine & ...

2026-01-02T20:01:23Z

The UK is a bizarre country where its seen as just fine & normal for people to sleep in tents in the freezing cold. Temperatures to hit -4 this week

But the idea Billionaires could be less rich. Not poor, not struggling, just a bit less rich, this is seen as extreme and radical

There is a great deal of work that is not bullshit and that very ...

2026-01-02T15:30:07Z

There is a great deal of work that is not bullshit and that very much helps people. Even if not highly paid (and not appreciated), such work is essential for society.

At the end of the month we will have an event on Decolonisation. ...

2026-01-02T14:46:08Z

At the end of the month we will have an event on Decolonisation.

Kadija George Sesay will speak about the Decolonisation of Radical Black Publishers in a Pan-African World

https://davidgraeber.institute/kadija-george-sesay-the-decolonisation-of-radical-black-publishers-in-a-pan-african-world/

Revolutions in Reverse is a book from David Graeber about ...

2025-12-26T15:13:23Z

Revolutions in Reverse is a book from David Graeber about politics, violence and art.

If you are searching for a book to read for 2026 that will make you think about different possibilities for this world - make you think about alternatives to capitalism, this might be a good pick.

The only thing we can imagine is catastrophe. ...

2025-12-24T20:17:52Z

The only thing we can imagine is catastrophe.

https://davidgraeber.org/articles/the-only-thing-we-can-imagine-is-catastrophe/

Household debt, the debt people have with the bank, or on a ...

2025-12-24T15:30:48Z

Household debt, the debt people have with the bank, or on a mortgage or on credit cards.........this is nothing like the debt that Government has.

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2025-12-21T15:29:37Z

About to start Come and see our livestream with Prof Steve Keen ...

2025-12-09T17:51:11Z

About to start

Come and see our livestream with Prof Steve Keen and ask your questions in the chat!

link to stream: https://youtu.be/vSpGJOnklwU

Our livestraem about David Graeber's work is starting now ...

2025-12-08T17:50:01Z

Our livestraem about David Graeber's work is starting now

Please come along and ask your questions in the chat!!!

https://www.youtube.com/live/4-AlIT-GnQk

We have a number of interesting livestreams coming up This ...

2025-12-06T18:24:04Z

We have a number of interesting livestreams coming up

This includes one with Michael Hudson on Wednesday 10th Dec

He will talk about the changing world order, Colonialism and the end of capitalism. He will also answer questions from the Youtube chat.

https://www.youtube.com/live/Zvy3PAQtih8

David Graeber once wrote an important piece about the power of ...

2025-12-04T01:43:00Z

David Graeber once wrote an important piece about the power of protest and the police. This is an extract.

https://davidgraeber.org/articles/on-the-phenomenology-of-giant-puppets-broken-windows-imaginary-jars-of-urine-and-the-cosmological-role-of-the-police-in-american-culture/

Back in 1949, Albert Einstein wrote WHY SOCIALISM. Here is an ...

2025-11-30T14:01:46Z

Back in 1949, Albert Einstein wrote WHY SOCIALISM.

Here is an extract.

We could house everyone. We could feed everyone. We could care ...

2025-11-30T00:47:54Z

We could house everyone. We could feed everyone. We could care for everyone. We could build devices designed to last as long as possible. We could align our manufacturing around the needs of the people and the planet.

We materially have the resources to do so.

That's why leftists are so angry. The resources we need to build a world everyone can thrive in literally already exist. We are just using them mostly to pamper the rich or murder the poor.

We recently published a lesser known article by David Graeber ...

2025-11-21T14:26:50Z

We recently published a lesser known article by David Graeber written in 2013 called - Buncombe.

Here is the piece and an extract.

https://davidgraeber.org/articles/buncombe

There will be an online event by the David Graeber Institute on ...

2025-11-17T14:38:42Z

There will be an online event by the David Graeber Institute on December 8th.

Cory Doctorow and Brian Eno will speak about poetic technologies and the work of David Graeber

Save The Date!

https://www.youtube.com/live/4-AlIT-GnQk

Is this new system we are moving to even Capitalism, or is just ...

2025-11-08T15:25:29Z

Is this new system we are moving to even Capitalism,

or is just Feudalism with modern technology?

Yesterday, we held a livestream with Prof Tim Ingold about the ...

2025-11-07T13:53:31Z

Yesterday, we held a livestream with Prof Tim Ingold about the topic of 'Art In A Possible World.'

If you could not make it, you can view the stream here on our youtube channel.

https://youtu.be/eJc2fWZLj2g

It is a neo-liberal myth, the idea of an unregulated bank. ...

2025-10-31T16:23:02Z

It is a neo-liberal myth, the idea of an unregulated bank.

Politics must be more than a choice between a Corporate Democrat ...

2025-10-27T01:49:43Z

Politics must be more than a choice between a Corporate Democrat and a Trumpist Fascist.

Neo-Liberalism has transferred so much of our wealth to the ...

2025-10-26T01:31:00Z

Neo-Liberalism has transferred so much of our wealth to the Billionaire class while telling us its socialism that we should be afraid of.

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2025-10-23T13:35:32Z

Modern capitalism has more in common with Feudalism and the ...

2025-10-15T15:07:25Z

Modern capitalism has more in common with Feudalism and the oldstyle slave-system than most people realize.

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2025-10-12T16:38:50Z

Yes

"The police don’t spend their time fighting violent ...

2025-10-07T20:00:35Z

"The police don’t spend their time fighting violent criminals. Instead, they
enforce administrative regulations & endless rules. Rather than protecting us
against violence they bring the threat of violence to situations where it'd never
occur otherwise. Most incidents of domestic violence, a drunken brawl, or
gang fights, they don’t get involved however try driving down the street with
no license plates: how long it'll be before you're surrounded by people
with weapons."

- David Graeber

Always worth stopping to think about what Noam Chomsky has to ...

2025-10-06T13:51:57Z

Always worth stopping to think about what Noam Chomsky has to say.

"Cancel all student loan debt? But that would be unfair to ...

2025-10-05T15:27:03Z

"Cancel all student loan debt? But
that would be unfair to all those
people who struggled for years
to pay back their student loans!
Let me assure the reader that,
as someone who struggled for
years to pay back his student
loans and finally did so, this
argument makes about as
much sense as saying it would
be unfair to a mugging victim
not to mug their neighbors too."

- David Graeber

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2025-10-05T15:10:04Z

Yes

A pitch for Universal Basic Income from the book Bullshit Jobs. ...

2025-10-02T20:22:36Z

A pitch for Universal Basic Income from the book Bullshit Jobs.

Have a read.

In David Graeber's book, The Democracy Project, he mentioned ...

2025-10-02T15:12:57Z

In David Graeber's book, The Democracy Project, he mentioned ]Liberal-Centrists were not the most reliable allies in political movements.

This history is worth taking into account for those active in any political movement.

Hopelessness is manufactured. Hopelessness is part of ...

2025-09-26T13:48:36Z

Hopelessness is manufactured. Hopelessness is part of Neo-Liberalism.

They want you to believe there is no hope and no possible alternative.

The destructive nature of the current feudalized version of ...

2025-09-23T02:45:34Z

The destructive nature of the current feudalized version of capitalism needs to be talked about more on social media.

Neo-liberalism cannot have its biggest victims being politically ...

2025-09-12T23:57:59Z

Neo-liberalism cannot have its biggest victims being politically active.

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2025-09-11T23:59:05Z

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2025-09-08T01:43:37Z

Hopelessness is an important element of Neo-Liberalism ...

2025-09-05T15:43:16Z

Hopelessness is an important element of Neo-Liberalism

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2025-09-04T00:44:29Z

When buying an apartment is becoming impossible, we need to start ...

2025-08-28T15:05:57Z

When buying an apartment is becoming impossible, we need to start discussing what went wrong.

David Graeber explained how in our system, the poor are always ...

2025-08-26T17:38:54Z

David Graeber explained how in our system, the poor are always expected to pay their Debts and those in Debt are made to feel as if they did something wrong - almost like they committed a crime.

But of course, corporations are never expected to pay their Debts.

“This, without a doubt, is neoliberalism’s single most ...

2025-08-20T01:40:26Z

“This, without a doubt, is neoliberalism’s
single most damaging legacy: the
realization of its bleak vision has
isolated us enough from one another
that it became possible to convince
us that we are not just incapable of
self-preservation but fundamentally
not worth saving.”

- Naomi Klein

So much of this economic system now resembles Feudalism. ...

2025-08-19T13:52:28Z

So much of this economic system now resembles Feudalism.

The huge bureaucracy that exists in our system to make the poor ...

2025-08-19T13:18:01Z

The huge bureaucracy that exists in our system to make the poor feel bad about themselves would not be money and time wasted with UBI.

"Any system that reduces the world to numbers can only be ...

2025-08-12T20:39:17Z

"Any system that reduces
the world to numbers can
only be held in place by
weapons, whether these
are swords and clubs, or
nowadays, smart bombs
from unmanned drones.”

- David Graeber

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2025-08-07T11:48:08Z

This message is now more relevant than ever. ...

2025-08-04T11:32:26Z

This message is now more relevant than ever.

Instead of the daily stock market - we could have an indicator ...

2025-08-02T18:18:45Z

Instead of the daily stock market - we could have an indicator for the number of homeless people?

John Pilger really was a great thinker and a great man. ...

2025-07-31T11:45:56Z

John Pilger really was a great thinker and a great man.

David Graeber always mentioned work is mostly about caring and ...

2025-07-29T20:56:15Z

David Graeber always mentioned work is mostly about caring and helping. Caring and helping others.

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2025-07-26T13:14:25Z

"In studying economic history, we tend to systematically ...

2025-07-16T08:44:26Z

"In studying economic history, we
tend to systematically ignore the
role of violence as well as the
absolutely central role that war
and slavery played in creating and
shaping the basic institutions of
what we now call ‘the economy.'

- David Graeber

With Neo-liberalism, people lost healthcare, housing is ...

2025-07-15T10:10:34Z

With Neo-liberalism, people lost healthcare, housing is unaffordable, debt ruins lives and Fascism emerges yet the media tells us its socialism that we should fear.

Shock Therapy was once used to cure patients. It always made the ...

2025-07-14T13:26:11Z

Shock Therapy was once used to cure patients. It always made the patient worse yet some 'experts' claimed the solution was even more shock therapy

Many economists now do the same saying the solution to Neo-Liberalism's decades of failure is even more Neo-Liberalism.

At some point, the Democrats need to be less awful. ...

2025-07-12T12:41:51Z

At some point, the Democrats need to be less awful.

If privatisation, starving the poor and transferring more wealth ...

2025-07-11T12:47:08Z

If privatisation, starving the poor and transferring more wealth to the rich worked then the economy would be massively BOOMING!

We've been doing it for 40+ years and all its done is make everything worse. Only an idiot would think more neo-liberalism is the solution.

From David Graeber's 2013 piece - A practical utopians guide ...

2025-07-07T14:51:47Z

From David Graeber's 2013 piece - A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse

Think about this for a moment. ...

2025-07-07T14:43:11Z

Think about this for a moment.

Michael Hudson explains how "Financial Managers" took ...

2025-07-01T09:21:11Z

Michael Hudson explains how "Financial Managers" took away much of the independence of Global South countries via the use of DEBT!

Money that should have been spent to develop countries - went instead to the creditors of the debts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEi4na4mfgk

It is the 99% v the 1% All the propaganda out there is to get all ...

2025-06-26T12:20:36Z

It is the 99% v the 1%

All the propaganda out there is to get all of us in the 99% to fight among each other so we don't unite to defeat the 1%.

David Graeber was from NYC. If he could vote today, it ...

2025-06-24T21:00:23Z

David Graeber was from NYC. If he could vote today, it wouldn't be for the "Centrist" candidate.

When in London, NYC and elsewhere we see so many homeless people, ...

2025-06-23T21:38:32Z

When in London, NYC and elsewhere we see so many homeless people, maybe some changes need to be made to the type of capitalism we have today.

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2025-06-21T10:08:08Z

From Bullshit Jobs, page 143. ...

2025-06-17T15:23:02Z

From Bullshit Jobs, page 143.

On the 'undeserving poor.' ...

2025-06-15T22:58:45Z

On the 'undeserving poor.'

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2025-06-12T15:03:55Z

It is basically textbook how the police and media behave during ...

2025-06-10T21:04:06Z

It is basically textbook how the police and media behave during protest movements.

Concerning the Violent Peace-Police ...

2025-06-08T22:12:24Z

Concerning the Violent Peace-Police

https://davidgraeber.org/articles/concerning-the-violent-peace-police/

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology was published in 2004, yet ...

2025-06-05T15:26:23Z

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology was published in 2004, yet still today is popular in Anthropology sections in bookshops and libraries.

With Right-Wing myths always spread about the state, about hierarchy and about what is possible, the book is a good read to get another point of view.

At some point, our society will need to stop ignoring this ...

2025-06-02T22:36:34Z

At some point, our society will need to stop ignoring this injustice.

Is this system we are now in still capitalism, or is it just ...

2025-06-01T23:00:18Z

Is this system we are now in still capitalism, or is it just Feudalism with modern technology?

In 2015, David Graeber's book, The Utopia Of Rules, was ...

2025-05-28T11:39:04Z

In 2015, David Graeber's book, The Utopia Of Rules, was published.

Many have noted the importance of a Left critique of bureaucracy, especially when we see how privatization has led to massive increases of bureaucracy.

This book does that!

An important point about Universal Basic Income. ...

2025-05-26T13:07:54Z

An important point about Universal Basic Income.

He said this in 2018, but this is exactly what is happening in ...

2025-05-22T12:29:48Z

He said this in 2018, but this is exactly what is happening in the UK with the Labour Government and elsewhere

From David Graeber's 'Revolutions in Reverse' (2011). ...

2025-05-22T11:37:29Z

From David Graeber's 'Revolutions in Reverse' (2011).

For those in Venice, Italy tomorrow and this weekend. Come along! ...

2025-05-22T11:31:34Z

For those in Venice, Italy tomorrow and this weekend.

Come along!

Full details: https://www.festivaldeimatti.org/visual-assembly-accademia-di-belle-arti-venerdi-23-maggio-ore-11-00-e-18-00-teatrino-di-palazzo-grassi-sabato-24-maggio-e-domenica-25-maggio-ore-14-00/

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2025-05-09T17:40:23Z

This is from David Graeber's Against Economics. You can read ...

2025-05-09T09:10:01Z

This is from David Graeber's Against Economics. You can read the full piece, on our website.

https://davidgraeber.org/articles/against-economics/

From the book, Bullshit Jobs. ...

2025-05-06T19:03:49Z

From the book, Bullshit Jobs.

From: 'Culture as creative refusal.' (2013 by David ...

2025-05-06T12:25:38Z

From: 'Culture as creative refusal.' (2013 by David Graber)

https://davidgraeber.org/papers/culture-as-creative-refusal/

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2025-05-05T14:48:41Z