FlowChainSenseiMar 9
David Graeber Institute
Mar 8 at 10:31pmWeb
Show threadⒶ Consciousness Revolutions 🏴Mar 8
@DGI There is a similar quote in "Debt" about creating money and "a man with a gun" but I cannot find this one — could you please point me to the source? Thanks.
Show threadmrtuttleMar 10

@shimon @DGI

perhaps this quote from page 320:

One element, however, tends to go flagrantly missing in even the most vivid conspiracy theories about the banking system, let alone in official accounts: that is, the role of war and military power. There’s a reason why the wizard has such a strange capacity to create money out of nothing. Behind him, there’s a man with a gun.

Show threadDźwiedziuMar 9
@DGI
“Whenever I hear «free market» I reach for my gun. [in anticipation of that man whith a gun whom the «free market» pays]”
Show threadBirds Books and BullshitMar 9
@DGI There's always a man with a gun, no matter what system you have. If you have a system that doesn't employ men with guns, some will show up and change your system whether you like it or not. That's the neat thing about power through violence if you don't wield the threat, someone else will show up who will. Then you're either forced to threaten violence or lose.