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This article offers a summary of the main ideas from The Dawn of Everything. It highlights that pre-agricultural societies were not inherently unequal or patriarchal, that many early cities were self-governed for centuries, and that certain freedoms were lost with the emergence of states. The article concludes with a call to break with forms of domination and recover the essential freedoms found in Mesolithic societies.

Roger Costa Puyal: He is a journalist at La Directa (a Catalan self-managed leftist media outlet) and a writer. Alongside Ricard de Vargas, he co-authored Josep Lluís Facerías: And His Action Groups, a book about one of the best-known guerrilla fighters of the anti-Franco resistance.

Comments by DGI volunteer Pere Carrillo Camps:

The article is particularly interesting because, beyond summarizing the book, it connects Graeber and Wengrow’s ideas with the historical context of the Iberian Peninsula. It references two authors: Almudena Hernando, an anthropologist and professor of Prehistory at the Complutense University of Madrid, author of The Fantasy of Individuality: On the Socio-Historical Construction of the Modern Subject (whom the writer recently heard speak in a course on The Art of Not Being Governed by James Scott, where she mentioned diverging from Graeber and Wengrow’s approach); Rodrigo Villalobos, an archaeologist and author of Original Communism and Class Struggle in Prehistoric Iberia.