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"What did we lose, when the US drove the world off gold in 1971, well we lost the alternative to keeping our savings in a way that did not finance the US military take over threatening our very existence today."

Michael Hudson.

We are going to make another version with Portuguese subtitles.

Brian Eno on how Lula Da Silva's policy (in Brazil) of giving money to the poor both helped those poor families and stimulated the economy.

"What did we lose, when the US drove the world off gold in 1971, well we lost the alternative to keeping our savings in a way that did not finance the US military take over threatening our very existence today."

Michael Hudson.

If you want to hear commentary on what is wrong with capitalism, come along.

And please do ask tough questions for Michael Hudson.

If you want to hear commentary on what is wrong with capitalism, come along.

And please do ask tough questions for Michael Hudson.

Very interetsing.

YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber Michael Hudson: Changing world order/Colonialism and the end of capitalism as we know it

We have a livestream with Michael Hudson coming up later today.

Topic is: Changing world order, Colonialism and the end of capitalism as we know it

youtu.be/Zvy3PAQtih8

YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber Ilona Otto and Steve Keen: Tinkering our way through social collapse

About to start

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

link to stream: youtu.be/vSpGJOnklwU

YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber Ilona Otto and Steve Keen: Tinkering our way through social collapse

About to start

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

link to stream: youtu.be/vSpGJOnklwU

Brian Eno on how Lula Da Silva's policy (in Brazil) of giving money to the poor both helped those poor families and stimulated the economy.

Our livestraem about David Graeber's work is starting now

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

Our livestraem about David Graeber's work is starting now

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

Happening later today!

Get your questions ready for the guests.

"Anarchists believe that power corrupts and those who spend their entire lives seeking power are the very last people who should have it. Anarchists also believe that our present economic system is more likely to reward people for selfish and unscrupulous behavior than for being decent, caring human beings. Most people feel that way. The only difference is that most people don’t think there’s anything that can be done about it, or anyway — and this is what the faithful servants of the powerful are always most likely to insist — anything that won’t end up making things even worse." – David Graeber

A few words on Anarchism,

From David Graeber's 'Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!'

davidgraeber.org/articles/are...

"Anarchists believe that power corrupts and those who spend their entire lives seeking power are the very last people who should have it. Anarchists also believe that our present economic system is more likely to reward people for selfish and unscrupulous behavior than for being decent, caring human beings. Most people feel that way. The only difference is that most people don’t think there’s anything that can be done about it, or anyway — and this is what the faithful servants of the powerful are always most likely to insist — anything that won’t end up making things even worse." – David Graeber

A few words on Anarchism,

From David Graeber's 'Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!'

davidgraeber.org/articles/are...

Michael Hudson: Changing world order/Colonialism and the end of capitalism as we know it YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber

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.

www.youtube.com/live/Zvy3PAQ...

"Direct action is a form of resistance which, in its structure, is meant to prefigure the genuinely free society one wishes to create. Revolutionary action is not a form of self-sacrifice, a grim dedication to doing whatever it takes to achieve a future world of freedom. It is the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free." . - David Graeber

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

davidgraeber.org/articles/on-...

We could easily house, feed & care for everyone

We could build devices designed to last as long as possible aligning our manufacturing around the needs of the people & planet

We've materially the resources to do so. We're just now using them mostly to pamper the rich. This's why Leftists are angry

"The left really needs to own the anti-bureaucracy. The right claims to be anti-bureaucracy, but in fact neoliberal policies just create more and more and more bureaucracy, more than the world has ever seen. So we need to get rid of those bureaucrats and, if 40% of the people already believe that their jobs are useless, if we just give everybody money and say decide for yourself how you can contribute to society, how can they come up with a worse arrangement than we already have? A lot of people would write bad poetry or form bad bands, but some of them would form good poetry or good bands. And it’s a lot better than what we’ve got now."

David Graeber was a big critic of bureaucracy adding that Neoliberalism & privatization, instead of reducing it, actually led to more bureaucracy.

"The left really needs to own the anti-bureaucracy. The right claims to be anti-bureaucracy, but in fact neoliberal policies just create more and more and more bureaucracy, more than the world has ever seen. So we need to get rid of those bureaucrats and, if 40% of the people already believe that their jobs are useless, if we just give everybody money and say decide for yourself how you can contribute to society, how can they come up with a worse arrangement than we already have? A lot of people would write bad poetry or form bad bands, but some of them would form good poetry or good bands. And it’s a lot better than what we’ve got now."

David Graeber was a big critic of bureaucracy adding that Neoliberalism & privatization, instead of reducing it, actually led to more bureaucracy.

Survival Kit Collection: Assembly at Saint Vincent Prison David Graeber Institute On technology, art, education. Towards a practical guide for avoiding the upcoming societal collapse We will be at Saint Vincent prison facilities, where

On the Caribbean Island of St Vincent, we'll discuss the creation of a Survival Kit Collection

At the St Vincent prison, we'll be installing a 3D printer and a spirulina production kit. This is part of a long term project of the David Graeber Institute.

davidgraeber.institute/survival-kit...

"Capitalism has produced endless bullshit white-collar jobs, which are designed to make you identify with the sensibilities of managers. I call this managerial feudalism, whereby they keep adding more and more and more levels of intermediary executives. . If you’re an executive you need to have an assistant or else you’re not important." . - David Graeber

'On Capitalism’s Endless Busywork.'

davidgraeber.org/articles/is-...

We could easily house, feed & care for everyone

We could build devices designed to last as long as possible aligning our manufacturing around the needs of the people & planet

We've materially the resources to do so. We're just now using them mostly to pamper the rich. This's why Leftists are angry

Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital, the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information – press, radio, education. — Albert Einstein (From Why Socialism, by Albert Einstein 1949)

In 1949, Albert Einstein wrote WHY SOCIALISM.

Here is an extract.

Erich Fromm once wrote a book called Fear Of Freedom.

Here David Graeber relates some of Fromm's ideas to the modern world of work.

Erich Fromm once wrote a book called Fear Of Freedom.

Here David Graeber relates some of Fromm's ideas to the modern world of work.

UBI is expensive, but so is the system we have now and there’s a major savings that you’ll have firing all those people who are assessing who is worthy of what. Philosophically, I think that it’s really important to bear in mind two things. One is it’ll show people that you don’t have to force people to work, to want to contribute. It’s not that people resist work. People resist meaningless work; people resist stupid work; and people resist humiliating work. But I always talk about prisons, where people are fed, clothed, they’ve got shelter; they could just sit around all day. But actually, they use work as a way of rewarding them. You know, if you don’t behave yourself, we won’t let you work in the prison laundry. I mean, people want to work. Nobody just wants to sit around, it’s boring. . - David Graeber

There are a lot of misconceptions about peoples' desire to work and to contribute.

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UBI is expensive, but so is the system we have now and there’s a major savings that you’ll have firing all those people who are assessing who is worthy of what. Philosophically, I think that it’s really important to bear in mind two things. One is it’ll show people that you don’t have to force people to work, to want to contribute. It’s not that people resist work. People resist meaningless work; people resist stupid work; and people resist humiliating work. But I always talk about prisons, where people are fed, clothed, they’ve got shelter; they could just sit around all day. But actually, they use work as a way of rewarding them. You know, if you don’t behave yourself, we won’t let you work in the prison laundry. I mean, people want to work. Nobody just wants to sit around, it’s boring. . - David Graeber

There are a lot of misconceptions about peoples' desire to work and to contribute.