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David Graeber
This is the text of a talk I gave in October 2012, “Occupy, Debt, Finance, and Class Struggle”. I was asked to talk about Occupy, the crisis and class struggle. I work on the topic of the Occupy movement as a form of social contestation within the context of the neoliberal crisis. In this talk [...]
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David Graeber and David Harvey discuss the Occupy movements, social movements, the crisis, and their new books.
Filmed on 25 April 2012 at The CUNY Graduate Center
Yet another stupid article on the tactic called “Black Bloc” has been published. It is not exactly what the world has needed to become a better place, but I think it is an exemplary case for the contracditions and ideology behind those articles, which tend to pop up every time there seems to be broader [...]
There is some very interesting discussion about hierarchy and authority, loaded words in many debates about anarchism, in this interview. I was particular struck by the concept of self-subverting authority. Check out Graeber’s book Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology which, as the title suggests, is a look at anarchism from an anthropological perspective.
Posted in Anarchism Tagged: Charlie Rose, David Graeber
