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.
…has been taking the populist and working class vote is and the left has basically lost it, is that since people like Clinton, Blair, all these sort of new Democrats, new laborers, all these kind of guys, I mean, they're basically corporate leftists. And…
…right has been taking the populist and working-class vote and the left has basically lost it, is that since people like Clinton, Blair, all these sort of new Democrats, new laborers, all these kind of guys, I mean, they're basically corporate leftists. And…
…been taking the populist and working class vote and the left has basically lost it is that, you know, since people like Clinton, Blair, all these sort of new Democrats, new labor, all these kind of guys, I mean, they're basically corporate leftists. And…
…you measure it, is the bounds of what's considered possible. I mean, it's clear that, you know, Obama's way to the right of Clinton and Clinton's way to the right of Nixon on economic issues. Maybe not on social issues. All right, so much for stacking.…
…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 prestige of those later…
…he couldn't do it. And he said, well, why not? He said, well, because Wall Street won't let you. And the famous line from Clinton was, you mean to say my whole economic program is held hostage to a bunch of fucking bond traders? And Rubin said, yes.…
…say my whole economic program is held hostage to a bunch of fucking bond traders? And Rubin said, yes. And so what did Clinton do? He came in promising health care, universal health care, and he gave us NAFTA and the end of Glass-Steagall and he gave…
…government debt. As a result, the government got rid of the debt entirely. There was a study that now came out under the Clinton administration when they were trying to get rid of the deficit, or they went into a budget surplus. What would happen if…
…the budget had to be cut by a trillion dollars a year. Just to add, I want to recall the whole debate under Clinton, which I think is very telling, when they actually had a budget surplus. And pretty much everybody across the political spectrum who…
…the long term, if they got rid of the debt entirely, realized that this would be a terrible idea. And that goes from the Clinton people to people like Alan Greenspan, the Ayn Randian, who you know, started saying, you know, well, he had to come up with…
…central bank you know created this giant financial panic or so they have to go back to the cat again same thing under Clinton he was running budget surpluses everybody saying oh you know so virtuous he was like getting gradually going to get rid of the…
…Trump Trump's first campaign after he'd won, he did this sort of victory round of rallies. And at one point he mentioned to Larry Clinton and everybody started chanting, lock her up, lock her up, lock her up. And he said, no, no, you don't have to use…
…of rules. This is very clear in America. And again, you can see this in the battle of Trump versus Hillary Clinton. Clinton was essentially accused of being corrupt because she would do things like get hundreds of thousands of dollars for speeches from…
…people who think that way. And they've become the base of party, you know, they are the electoral base of people like Clinton, people like Macron, people... like Tony Blair had been, people like Obama. Corbyn was not at all like that. He's this person…