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.
…day, for example. And ironically, it tended to be the anarchist constituency, if you look at the famous debate between Marx and Bakunin, right, who was gonna be the revolutionary, who was going to actually make the revolution. Marx thought it was going to…
…was going to actually make the revolution. Marx thought it was going to be Germany and England, the advanced proletariat. Bakunin said Spain, Russia, recently proletarianized peasants and craftspeople. And of course, Bakunin was right about who did it. It was…
…be Germany and England, the advanced proletariat. Bakunin said Spain, Russia, recently proletarianized peasants and craftspeople. And of course, Bakunin was right about who did it. It was the classic anarchist constituencies who wanted more time. But they ended…
…our own life somewhere else. So we want more hours. I always thought the irony of the 20th century, there's a famous Bakunin Marx argument about where the revolution would happen, who was the real evolutionary classes. And Bakunin argued that it would be…
…century, there's a famous Bakunin Marx argument about where the revolution would happen, who was the real evolutionary classes. And Bakunin argued that it would be Spain and Russia and the sort of recently proletarianized peasants and artisans rather than the…
…peasants and artisans rather than the sort of advanced industrial proletariat of Germany. and England, as Marx predicted. Of course, Bakunin was right. But one of the great ironies of the 20th century is that it was essentially the anarchist constituencies…