![]() The book spans the concept’s evolution from the great Axial Age civilizations-adapting Karl Jaspers's label to describe the period between 800 BCE and 600 CE in Greece, India, and China-into the age of global conquest, and finally though its bizarre mutations over the past forty years. ![]() We may also be entering a moment in which the philosophical and cosmic nature of debt finally becomes apparent.ĭebt’s striking synchronicity with OWS should not overshadow the fact that it’s also a formidable piece of anthropological scholarship. Graeber's book shows that mass movements that result in debt cancellation-whether through revolution or amnesty-are inevitable, and suggests that we may be entering such a period now. ![]() By the time I finished reading it, copycat occupations had sprung up in my adoptive home city (Montreal), my native city (Sacramento), and spots around the world. I received my review copy the day of the October 5th NYPD pepper-spray incident in Zuccotti Park. David Graeber has been much praised of late as a prophet of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and even if one doesn’t want to go that far, his book is remarkably timely. ![]()
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