If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt—above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.


Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011)

David Graeber Quotes

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by...

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by...

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by...

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by...