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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

Name: Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
Author: David Graeber

David Graeber

The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies―vibrant, imaginative experiments in self-governa...

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The Ezra Klein Show

It explored a speculative pirate confederacy in Madagascar, using thin evidence to imagine pirate democracy.

The first one is Pirate Enlightenment by the late David Graeber. The subtitle is The Real Libertalia. It's about this interesting confederated pirate federation, kind of decentralized government theor...

— Episode: What Communes and Other Radical Experime...

Episode: What Communes and Other Radical Experiments in Liv...

It explored a speculative pirate confederacy in Madagascar, using thin evidence to imagine pirate democracy.

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Behind the Bastards

The book argues that the Enlightenment occurred as a result of Europeans' interactions and exposure to the rest of the world.

David Graeber, in one of his recent posthumous works, Pirate Enlightenment, and in a lot of his other works as well, he sort of grapples with this idea of the Enlightenment, right?

— Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 78

Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 78