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WRT social relations vs resources: I've been struggling to wrap my head around these kinds of notions. Any pointers? FWIW, I'm currently reading The Dawn of Ev
by specialist 5y ago
WRT social relations vs resources: I've been struggling to wrap my head around these kinds of notions. Any pointers?
FWIW, I'm currently reading The Dawn of Everything (Graeber, Wengrow). Here's a characteristic pullout, from Ch 10 "Why the State has no Origin: The Humble beginnings of sovereignty, bureaucracy, and politics":
"Just as access to violence, information and charisma defines the very possibilities of social domination, so the modern state is defined as a combination of sovereignty, bureaucracy and a competitive political field."
As with Graeber's prior efforts, I feel like he's rewiring my brain, by exposing all these assumptions and presumptions I never knew I had. (a la Does a fish know about water?)
Keeping in this theme, my next book is Mine: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives (Heller, Salzman).
- VictorPath 5y agoRead the Anarchist FAQ, Why is capitalism exploitative? You can find it on the Internet for free. Marx's Capital discusses relations of production, surplus labor time etc. as well, but is famously not an easy read (certain chapters any how, including the first one).