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Browsing Quotes With Tag: peonage (2)

  • [The] great embarrassing fact that haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft. More than anything else, the endless recitation of the myth of barter, employed much like an incantation, is the economists’ way of fending off any possibility of having to confront it.

    Speaker: David Graeber
    Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:37 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: capitalism, free-market, history, peonage

  • It is the secret scandal of capitalism that at no point has it been organized primarily around free labor.

    Speaker: David Graeber
    Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:27 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: capitalism, free-market, peonage