The origin of egalitarian politics
 

Graeber / Wengrow 209: "Domination first appears on the most intimate, domestic level. Self-consciously egalitarian politics emerge to prevent such relations from extending beyond those small worlds into the public sphere (which often comes to be imagined, in the process, as an exclusive sphere for adult men). These are the kind of dynamics that culminated in phenomena like ancient Athenian democracy"
 
"inequality from below"

> from David Graeber and David Wengrow's Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021)

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> created October 24, 2024 at 11:48:53 AM


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