[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that hist — David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that hist — David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that hist — David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that hist — David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that hist — David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

— David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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