So too, above all, does his unique ability to imagine a better world, borne out of his own deep and abiding humanity,” Penn said. In his books, his constant, questing curiosity, his wry, sharp-eyed provoking of received nostrums shine through. “David’s inspirational work has changed and shaped the way people understand the world. Tom Penn, Graeber’s editor at Penguin Random House, said the publishing house was “devastated” and called Graeber “a true radical, a pioneer in everything that he did”. His iconoclastic research and writing opened us all up to fresh thinking and such innovative approaches to political activism. The Labour MP John McDonnell wrote: “I counted David as a much valued friend and ally. The historian Rutger Bregman called Graeber “one of the greatest thinkers of our time and a phenomenal writer”, while the Guardian columnist Owen Jones called him “an intellectual giant, full of humanity, someone whose work inspired and encouraged and educated so many”.
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