January 20, 2022

The Dawn of Everything - II

In the first half of the book (reviewed here), Graeber and Wengrow argued against the widely accepted idea that social inequality was a (necessary or contingent) result of the Agricultural Revolution. What did then happen in the communities that adopted farming? Chapter 7 tries to show that sustainable agriculture can be (and has been) based on schemes of communal land sharing, which do not require inequality or hierarchy.