The gift - Marcel Mauss In this, his most famous work, Marcel Mauss presented to the world a book which revolutionized our understanding of some of the basic structures…
Give it Away - David Graeber Anarchist anthropologist David Graeber discusses contemporary French theory and the 'Maussian Left'.
covid-19 lockdown: quarantine reflections An anarchist perspective on the COVID-19 quarantine and lock down in Metro Manila.
The illusion of the precapitalist gift - humanaesfera What was the precapitalist gift? In what concrete material circumstances did it make sense? Here, we…
Toward an anthropological theory of value: The false coin of our own dreams - David Graeber This innovative book is the first comprehensive synthesis of economic, political,…
David Graeber Interview with ReadySteadyBook Radical academic David Graeber speaks to ReadySteadyBook about his ideas on Marxism, his expulsion from Yale University and anarchist…
The school of ignorance and its modern conditions - Jean-Claude Michéa In this 1997 essay, contemporary educational reform is offered as an illustration of not only the…
Thoughts on David Graeber’s ‘Debt: the first 5,000 years’ I finally finished this book after reading it on and off for months. First, I'll say this is a very…
From one utopia to another - Anselm Jappe Anselm Jappe turns the tables on the apologists for capitalism who denounce “utopia” as the seed of Stalinist terror and as contrary to “human…
A dissection of the metaphysics of scarcity - humanaesfera Philosophical article that criticizes the metaphysics of scarcity, widely used (as "unquestionable…
On the invention of money: notes on sex, adventure, monomaniacal sociopathy and the true function of economics - David Graeber Anthropologist David Graeber responds to critics who insist that money evolved from…
Miguel Amorós interviewed by Rubén Martín for El Informador (Guadalajara) A March 2018 interview in which Miguel Amorós discusses his anti-development concepts, the global…
Telling the truth about class - Gáspár Miklós Tamás G.M. Tamás argues that all socialist endeavours can be divided between Rousseauian and Marxian ones. Rousseau seeks to replace stratified society…
Another World - Michelle Kuo talks with David Graeber David Graeber talks with the Editor-in-Chief of Artforum about philosophy, totalities,…
Critique of Italy '77: Eulogising madness "Certain publications of the so-called movement are staging a sinister leftist farce of madness which has nothing to do with real madness". An…
Robert Kurz interviewed by Sonia Montaño In this 2006 interview, Robert Kurz offers a succinct definition the “radical critique of value”, and discusses the nature of the commodity and…
Dialogue with Bordiga – Jacques Camatte In this 1988 essay, Jacques Camatte reassesses the continuing relevance of Bordiga’s emphasis on the need for a “radical break” (scisma) with…
On the Banks of the River Styx - David Wise Two letters (March 2010) to a young American Latino woman concerning situationists, ultra leftists, Jacques Camatte, post modernism, 'mad' Maoism…
An extraordinary Mr. Yves Le Manach... A letting go of the tiller Put together by Stuart / Dave Wise. Orginally published on the Revolt Against Plenty website. …
