You don’t understand anarchist economics until you have read David Graeber and Kevin Carson.
By Kevin Carson
Center for a Stateless Society
It’s conventional to start an obituary article with a brief biographical summary, so here it is.
One of David’s pet peeves was being referred to as an anarchist anthropologist, so I’ll say that David Graeber, an anarchist and an anthropologist, died at age 59 Wednesday, September 3rd in Venice of as yet unreported causes.
He was an Occupy Wall Street activist, a professor at the London School of Economics at the time of his death, and the author of (among other things) Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, Debt: The First 5000 Years, The Democracy Project, The Utopia of Rules, and Bullshit Jobs.
He leaves behind his wife, journalist/artist Nika Dubrovsky.
It’s also common in these things to add a personal note, but there’s not a lot to say. We knew each other casually, exchanging a few emails and interacting on Twitter a bit. Aside from that, our main connection was the influence his work had on me.
