FRAGMENTS OF AN ANARCHIST ANTHROPOLOGY
DAVID GRAEBER
,,The origin of all contracts lies in communism, an unconditional commitment to another's needs,,
,,It was not that they had not yet learned to seek profit through the most efficient means.They would have found the very premisethat the point of economic transaction-at least,one with someone who was not your enemy-was to seek the greatist profit deeply offensive.
,,But what if, he proposed,Amazonians were not entirely unaware of what the elementary forms of state power might be like-what it would mean to allow some men to give everyone eles orders which could not be questioned,since they were backed up by the threat of force-and were for that very reason determined to ensure such things never came about? What if they considerd the foundmental premises of our political science morally objectionable?
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2007-02-15
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