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.
…plays out, and what's interesting, I think, what really struck me was that this same tension can already be found in the Russell Tribunal, right? So I should... spent some time discussing and showing how the World Tribunal in Iraq drew on a long tradition…
…the World Tribunal in Iraq drew on a long tradition of citizens' tribunals or people's tribunals, going back to the original Russell Tribunal, the Russell War Crimes Tribunal in Vietnam. And so there was already a tension. So it was established by Bertrand…
…in Iraq drew on a long tradition of citizens' tribunals or people's tribunals, going back to the original Russell Tribunal, the Russell War Crimes Tribunal in Vietnam. And so there was already a tension. So it was established by Bertrand Russell, but also…
…Russell Tribunal, the Russell War Crimes Tribunal in Vietnam. And so there was already a tension. So it was established by Bertrand Russell, but also prominent in the tribunal was Sartre. And already there, if we look at the history of the Russell…
…by Bertrand Russell, but also prominent in the tribunal was Sartre. And already there, if we look at the history of the Russell tribunal, there were some tensions between Russell and Sartre, or at least between the groups around them. So Russell was very…
…the tribunal was Sartre. And already there, if we look at the history of the Russell tribunal, there were some tensions between Russell and Sartre, or at least between the groups around them. So Russell was very much interested that the tribunal should be,…
…of the Russell tribunal, there were some tensions between Russell and Sartre, or at least between the groups around them. So Russell was very much interested that the tribunal should be, to quote him, the most exhaustive portrayal of what has happened to…
…to the anti-imperialist movement and so central to this tribunal in particular, this Iraq tribunal? And to some extent, we have the Russell tribunal to blame. That was the start of this. So we have Sartre in opposition to the sort of Russell statements.…
…have the Russell tribunal to blame. That was the start of this. So we have Sartre in opposition to the sort of Russell statements. Opposition is too strong a word. But in contradistinction, we find him saying that there's no question of judging whether…
…its concomitant actions. Do they fall specifically, to quote Sartre, within the compass of international law on war crimes? So, the Russell Tribunal placed the question of the war's legality squarely in the public eye, with its insistence that the war was…
…and older people to look after them, you know, so that they wouldn't starve in old age. And people like J.S. Mill. Bertrand Russell, didn't he? Bertrand Russell. He had the idea of the vagabond wage. He absolutely, yeah. In Praise of Idleness, I think…
…look after them, you know, so that they wouldn't starve in old age. And people like J.S. Mill. Bertrand Russell, didn't he? Bertrand Russell. He had the idea of the vagabond wage. He absolutely, yeah. In Praise of Idleness, I think that was from. Yeah.…