The Utopia of Rules
Excerpts from The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber. In lack of a digital edition, they are simply written by hand directly from the paper book as a way of trying to understand the content (in my experience, writing provides a better understanding than reading).
Links and typing errors are mine.
Book review at Center for a Stateless Society
Page 7-9: The iron Law of Liberalism:
Page 11-14: The American form: Corporate bureaucratic capitalism, and planetary administration:
Page 17-18: The Era of bureaucracy:
Page 34-35: Do not overestimate technology as a causative factor:
Page 72-74: Police are bureaucrats with weapons:
Page 87-90: Stop Making Capitalism:
Pages 120-140:Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis:
Page 154-163: Otto von Bismarck and the German Post Office: