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Debt: The First 5000 Years (Audiobook) David Graeber

Notus & Friends

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The Myth of Communism

Communism is not some magical utopia, and neither does it have anything to do with ownership of the means of production. Primitive communism did once exist in the distant past, and some day it might return. All social sysems, even economic systems like capitalism, have always been built on top of a bedrock of actually existing communism. The most efficient way to go about getting something done is obviously to allocate tasks by ability and give people whatever they need to do them.

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