c/david-graeber
Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
…war without a significant social movement, than they are in winning the war. It's as if, like, you know, the ghost of Abbie Hoffman defeated the American army in Iraq. But nonetheless, I mean, I think that's the mode. If you think of that, like, that's…
…It's almost as if the I wrote somewhere the American military in Iraq was actually defeated by the ghost of Abbie Hoffman, which terrified them and sort of haunted them during the entire time. So that preemptive attitude, it seems absolute linchpin…
…country. The way I put it is, it's almost as if the American army in Iraq was ultimately defeated by the ghost of Abbie Hoffman. These guys were so obsessed with not allowing some movement like that to happen. They didn't even care if they lost the…