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The New Anarchists - David Graeber
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It’s hard to think of another time when there has been such a gulf between intellectuals and activists; between theorists of revolution and its practitioners. Writers who for years have been publishing essays that sound like position papers for vast social movements that do not in fact exist...
on Dec 25
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THE ULTIMATE HIDDEN TRUTH OF THE WORLD . . . - David Graeber
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“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently,” wrote David Graeber. During a moment of daunting upheaval and pervasive despair, the incisive, entertaining, and urgent essays collected in The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the...
on Nov 17
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Roy Bhaskar, who has died aged 70 of heart failure, turned to philosophy only after becoming an economics lecturer at Oxford University in the late 1960s. Feeling that economic science had virtually nothing useful to say about real-world issues of global wealth and poverty, he embarked on...
on Nov 10
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A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse - David Graeber
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What is a revolution? We used to think we knew. Revolutions were seizures of power by pop- ular forces aiming to transform the very nature of the political, social, and economic system in the country in which the revolution took place, usually according to some visionary dream of a just society....
on Oct 19
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Anarchism, Or The Revolutionary Movement Of The Twenty-first Century - David Graeber
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It is becoming increasingly clear that the age of revolutions is not over. It’s becoming equally clear that the global revolutionary movement in the twenty-first century, will be one that traces its origins less to the tradition of Marxism, or even of socialism narrowly defined, but of...
on Oct 18
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David Graeber - 5 Types of BS jobs - David Graeber
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David Graeber, Anthropologist, Anarchist, and Activist, describes 5 types of BS jobs and the concept of work for Real Media and the Real News Network.
on Oct 18
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David Graeber, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, is a man who wears many hats. He’s an academic, of course — and a respected one at that. But he’s also an author, an activist and political anarchist. But his most unique attribute may be this: He’s an honest-to-God...
on Oct 17
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Neoliberalism, or The Bureaucratization of the World - David Graeber
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Americans often find it difficult to talk about politics with people from other parts of the world. Consider three quotes culled, more or less at random, from world newswires around the end of December 2005. In Bolivia, newly elected president Evo Morales declared that in his victory “the people...
on Oct 8