The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Summary
Uses archaeological and anthropological evidence to challenge the idea that growing societies inevitably become hierarchical states. Early humans experimented with many political arrangements, including seasonal and reversible ones.
Why it’s useful here
Counters “it can’t scale” objections. Social arrangements are choices, and communities can experiment with governance structures for shared tech.
Key ideas
- Three basic freedoms: to move, to disobey, to reorganize social relations
- Political self-consciousness of early societies
Related
- bookchin-1982-ecology-of-freedom.md
- ostrom-1990-governing-the-commons.md