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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

that was both the first graeber i read and still a favorite. his critique of bureaucracy is definitely limited, but he also introduced me to a feminist critique of the monopoly on violence in the first essay, and his notion that the inefficiencies of capitalism greatly mitigate scientific progress is valid. (although the physicist he cites in this essay, jonathan katz, is an extreme racist and imperialist.)