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DESCRIPTION:For our March, April and May meetings we are reading Debt: The First 5000 
 Years  by David Graeber (Warwick, Amazon).For  our March meeting we'll be 
 reading the first five chapters.`\nBefore there was money, there was debt. 
 For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian 
 empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell 
 goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this 
 era that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and 
 creditors—which lives on in full force to this day.\n\nSo says 
 anthropologist David Graeber in a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. 
 He shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the 
 center of political debates from Renaissance Italy to Imperial China, as 
 well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly 
 demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion 
 (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large 
 part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas 
 of right and wrong.\n\nWe are still fighting these battles today.\nStrike 
 Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new 
 and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included Doughnut 
 Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital and Its 
 Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, The 
 Deficit Myth,  Revenge Capitalism, the Edge of Chaos blog symposium 
 , Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, The 
 Optimist’s Telescope, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing 
 Capitalism, Exploring Degrowth, The Origin of Wealth, Mine!, The Dawn 
 of Everything  A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Beyond Money, 
 Less is More, and Cannibal Capitalism.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/02/12/18854288.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Debt, by David Graeber
LOCATION:Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online 
 invite.
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