Warning, if you have a garden and a library, then you have everything that you need.

That's a quote from Cicero.

All right, class, settle down, please.

No more.

Hey, I saw that paper airplane.

All right, so today's lesson.

Just going to.

Library, Socialism, and the irreducible minimum. Okay? Does anyone here know what an

irreducible minimum is? Teacher, didn't Paul Radden argue that tribal economies are distinguished most

remarkably by their emphasis on the concept of an irreducible minimum,

and that they operated on the principle that every human being has the inalienable right to an

irreducible minimum consisting of adequate food, shelter, and clothing.

In sharp contrast to imperial societies in which tribute supports an elite class or the commercial

system in which profit furthers capital accumulation?

No what, everyone, Jonathan gets a sour dino gummy.

There you go.

Hmm, sour.

Yeah, so you're absolutely right that the term irreducible minimum has its origin in the Polish-American

anthropologist Paul Radden,

who was at one point was a major influence to Murray Bookchin, one of the founders of social ecology.

Oh yeah, he wrote the textbook, The Ecology of Freedom we all use.

Yeah, that's library socialism school for you.

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