"Yesterday, one of the best people in the world, my husband and friend David Graeber died in the hospital in Venice," tweeted this Thursday afternoon by the artist, writer and wife Nika Yang. The cause of death is unknown.

David Graeber (New York, 1961) was an American anarchist and militant, libertarian thinker. Known for his academic critique of bureaucracy and capitalism, he was a professor at the London School of Economics at the time of his death.

He was the son of parents who had been politically active. His father fought in the 1936 War with the International Brigades and his mother was a member of the International Union of Women Seamstresses. Graeber first called the attention of the academy for his fondness for the return of the Mayans of the hieroglyph in their youth, according to The Guardian. After studying anthropology at the State University of New York and at the University of Chicago, he won the prestigious Fulbright scholarship and worked for two years in the anthropological work of Madagascar.

In 2005, the University of Yale decided not to renew its contract one year before the end of its working day. Graeber publicly denounced that it was his policy of opinion. Over 4,500 colleagues and students signed a manifesto in their favor, and when the university offered him a paid sabbatical year, he accepted it and went to the UK. To explain what had happened in that labor conflict, The Guardian issued the following azaplén: "My job looks like I liked too much, and I'm also from the wrong class. I come from the working class," he added. He started teaching at the London School of Economics.

In 2011, he published Zor: the first 5,000 years gave him world fame. In this work, Graeber analyzes the violence behind all money-based social relations and asks that debts be eliminated. As he provoked criticism for and against, he began to attract the words of exaltation of many thinkers.

Bullshit Jobs: He published the book A theory, about the work and precariousness. ARGIA has offered an interview in the leaflet of the last Keys. In it, he argues, among other things, that capitalism is creating jobs that are "worthless" and that generate great social recognition, while at the same time maintaining without any recognition the essential jobs to maintain life. He denounces that the automation of the industry has made the workers work more and not less.

Since a young anarchist, Graeber has openly supported the liberation movement of the Kurds, especially the "democratic experiment" he had the opportunity to see in Rojava. Linked to activism, it played a special role in the creation of the Occupy Wall Street movement, to which many people attribute the principle that "we are 99%".

According to the New York Times, it has been one of the most influential intellectuals in the Anglo-Saxo world.