i'd be surprised if graeber actually said this
this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2026
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Graeber also liked to point out that Shia Islam is quite anarchistic and anti-state authority.
And also that markets divorced from state power lacked a lot of the coercive power they have in the modern Anglo-European unity of state and capital.
I whish that would still be the case today :<
islamophobia is cool again, i see
I read this more as making fun of alt righters who are deeply islamophobic while also supporting free market ideology.
Pretty much ever religion is full of bad stuff that should not be relevant today but if you said free market is christian then those idiots would use it to reinforce their believes.
I think religious law is bad, whether it's islamic or jewish or christian or any other religion's. I don't criticize islam as much as other religions these days, because there's brutal islamophobia in the west, and where I live especially. But still, no gods, no masters, and that includes islam.
Serious question. How is this islamophobic?
this is meant to be against capital, yes? since this an anarchy comm? and the argument it's making is that capitalism is a product of sharia law, yes? and sharia law is law as derived from the qu'ran, yes?
so, the reason it's giving to be against capital is "it comes from islam", yes? at least that's the only way i can find to interpret this.
It is meant to be against capital because it comes from the brutal medieval era. Thats at least my interpretation of it
the medieval period may have been brutal in europe, but next door, the islamic golden age was happening at that time, involving huge advances & development in medicine, mathematics, philosophy, art, etc between the 8th and 14th/15th centuries.
if it was purely about that it would not mention sharia, which is still a thing today.
If "islamophobia" meant simply being scared of and/or hostile toward Islam itself and not Muslims and/or Arabs in general, then you'd have a point here, but that isn't what's happening.
Why are you scared of Islam or hostile towards it?