David Graeber (1961 - 2020)
Sun Feb 12, 1961
David Graeber, born on this day in this 1961, was an American anthropologist, anarchist activist and author known for his books "Debt: The First 5000 Years", "The Utopia of Rules", and "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory". He was a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics.
Graeber's parents were self-taught working-class intellectuals in New York. His father was a member of the Youth Communist League, and fought in the Spanish Civil War. Graeber stated that he had been an anarchist since at least the age of 16.
Aside from his scholarship, Graeber was active in the Global Justice movement, also playing an early and influential role in the Occupy Wall Street protests. Graeber is sometimes attributed to coining the phrase "We are the 99%", however he credited the slogan to on-scene collaboration.
"Most of all, anarchism is just a matter of having the courage to take the simple principles of common decency that we all live by, and to follow them through to their logical conclusions."
- David Graeber
- Date: 1961-02-12
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