David Graeber Quote

"Communist society"—in the sense of a society organized exclusively on that single principle—could never exist. But all social systems, even economic systems like capitalism, have always been built on top of a bedrock of actually-existing communism.


Chapter Five, "A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Moral Relations", p. 95 - Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011)


Communist society—in the sense of a society organized exclusively on that single principle—could never exist. But all social systems, even...

Communist society—in the sense of a society organized exclusively on that single principle—could never exist. But all social systems, even...

Communist society—in the sense of a society organized exclusively on that single principle—could never exist. But all social systems, even...

Communist society—in the sense of a society organized exclusively on that single principle—could never exist. But all social systems, even...