Back to AtD. Anarchism again

[Mark Kohut]

Not long ago I posted a few sentences from David Graeber, Fellow in Anthropology,
anarchism theorist and practitioner--seems he was a key influence in the creation of
the General Assembly process within the Occupy movement. He was there as early as
anyone. 
 
Since then, i have obtained his newest book called Debt: The First 5,000 Years. 
 
Here is a very interesting paragraph that contains a lot of TRP's themes, I suggest. 
By "mathematics" herein, he means something like "the exchange theory of value"...
the situation within most larger societies where money--counting, measuring beyond use
in a match-up of numbers to a 'price' --becomes the means of exchange. 
 
p. 14 "The way violence, or the threat of violence, turns human relations into mathematics
will crop up again and again over the course of this book.....source of the moral confusions
re debt.......the dilemmas appear to be as old as civilization itself.......
Abridged: ....Mesopotamia, in the Vedas..and "still lies underneath ...our institutions today---
state and market---our ...conceptions of freedom, morality, sociality---all of which have been
shaped by a history of war, conquest and slavery in ways we're no longer cpable of 
perceiving because we can no longer imagine things in any other way."........
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