he chided me by saying that he didn’t really understand why so many leftists seemed to think of themselves as pessimists. “After all, we all do incredibly, insanely optimistic things all the time”.

– The Opposite of a Cynic: David Graeber, 1961-2020 | Novara Media

“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world,” Graeber once wrote, “is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”

– The anarchist: How David Graeber became the left’s most influential thinker