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Pirate Enlightenment, or Real Libertalia

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American anthropologist David Graeber's last and posthumously published book (1961-2020) is the result of his expedition to Madagascar, where he traveled as a graduate student at the University of Chicago. In his work, Graeber sharply criticizes the Eurocentric view that "wild peoples" can only become civilized through the competent management of Europeans. This book is a bold attempt to return anthropology and ethnography to its original purpose: to find an alternative view of social and cultural development. Graeber "decolonizes the Enlightenment," arguing that the origins of the ideas of equality, freedom, and justice are to be found outside of "Western civilization." He argues unequivocally that the very fictional egalitarian "pirate kingdoms" like Libertalia somehow existed in reality. Using the example of the Betsimisarak Confederation, Graeber describes the structure of the real project of the "society of the future", which was only fantasized by Thomas More and other authors of utopias.
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