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.
…on Davos, and I'm sorry I keep bringing in Dutch people here, but we've seen a Dutch historian who was retweeted by Bernie Sanders, which, can I say, we're back on the world stage. The Dutch are relevant again. But this historian, he's called Rutger…
…the entire Democratic Party has been taken over by this woman who won a primary in New York as opposed to like, oh, Bernie Sanders. Right. Like like they tried to. They're so muddled in their attempts to motivate Republicans to go out and vote that they…
…new home in a highly centralized state-focused and demand-driven reformist and liberal political projects, from Podemos to Bernie Sanders. Occupy rejected the traditional power structures of capitalism, but refused to directly challenge them. The electoral project…
…so it had no rap sheet of crimes equivalent to Syriza's implementation of austerity, Deimos' coalition with the establishment, or Sanders' incorporation into the machine of Clinton and Biden. But by leaving the vacuum of power open, it contributed to the…
…the Atlantic, the Boston Globe, the New York Review of Books. She served for three years as press secretary to US Congressman Bernie Sanders when he was first assumed office in 1991. Bookchin was born and raised in New York City, the daughter of two…
…want to find a kind of a way forward with our progressive politics. It's beyond just figuring out whether to vote for Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, you know, or just protesting in the streets. It's sort of like a third way, you know. That's their…
…figures. In other words, I mean our congressmen, our senators. Having worked in Washington for several years when I was working for Sanders, I know that the impact of phone calls and letters, not so much letters, but particularly phone calls and tweets and…
…which we can get to also. This is like way worse. Yeah, I think there's an analog between Corbyn as a figure and Bernie Sanders as a figure in this country, because while Bernie did in fact put himself forward as a nominee for president, and I worked…
…And I wonder, I've thought about this, I'm not an anthropologist as you are, But I've thought about it, certainly the Sanders phenomenon, in anthropological terms, I've wondered whether, you know, it almost felt like these figures of Corbin and Sanders were…
…the Sanders phenomenon, in anthropological terms, I've wondered whether, you know, it almost felt like these figures of Corbin and Sanders were violating some cultural norm of some kind and were, you know, receiving the collective punishment of that subset of…