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[–] ZMoney 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Check out "The Dawn of Everything" by Wengrow and Graeber

[–] ynazuma 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Different point of view on your “source”, which is a mass market paperback made to sell and be consumed, not for serious scientific inquiry.

https://libcom.org/article/wrong-about-almost-everything-review-dawn-everything-david-graeber-david-wengrow

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This author is a crackpot that also went after Chomsky. Chomsky had a hilarious rebuttal from what I remember. He really has a thing for anarchists. I'll trust these critics more when they do published rebuttals. I'm pretty sure several chapters in this book were published in some journals.

[–] ZMoney 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah it's a summary work that draws on decades of research. Both of these authors are extremely well-published in their respective fields. I'm like a third of the way through Dawn of Everything and it's just as academic as "Debt" was, and neither are mass-market pulp. But work like this always draws hit pieces because it's a way for critics to get their name out there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, that critic made a career on doing hit pieces. I also find it unconvincing lmao.

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