David Graeber
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Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
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.
…are both meaningful and well-paid, go only to rich people. So they hate those guys. And that's how you get Donald Trump, basically. So inequality is possible partly because Our societies are held together by all these hatreds that are ultimately founded…
…are both meaningful and well-paid, go only to rich people. So they hate those guys. And that's how you get Donald Trump, basically. So inequality is possible partly because Our societies are held together by all these hatreds that are ultimately founded…
…Remember, this week's question from hell is, what is your Calvin peeing on? Like the little truck sticker. Thomas K. says The Trump P-Tape. Wojciech R. says His Jellyfish Sting. Jack B. says Capitalist Realism. Borky B. says His Foot. Nathan R. says The…
…are both meaningful and well-paid, go only to rich people. So they hate those guys. And that's how you get Donald Trump, basically. So inequality is possible partly because Our societies are held together by all these hatreds that are ultimately founded…
…other stories, I'm Paul DiRienzo with the WBAI News for Tuesday, October 13th, 2020. The United States Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to wind down counting for the 2020 census a month earlier than originally planned in a blow to civil rights…
…hold a lower court ruling that ordered the once-in-a-decade population count to continue until October 31st. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to freeze a lower court's ruling allowing Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance…
…money payments. Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen paid to two porn stars who say they had sexual encounters with Trump. Recent court filings suggest the probe could focus on potential bank tax and insurance fraud as well as falsification of…
…court but would decide cases as they come. declined to say whether she would recuse herself from any election-related cases involving Trump, who nominated her to fill the seat of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Trump is pushing to have Barrett confirmed…
…herself from any election-related cases involving Trump, who nominated her to fill the seat of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Trump is pushing to have Barrett confirmed before the November 3rd election. Excited by the prospect of a conservative judge…
…Luxury Communism. Thank you both for joining me this evening. We're going to start by talking about the grim news that Donald Trump has withdrawn support for the Syrian Kurds. I'll do an introduction. We start the show with the grim news that Donald…
…Donald Trump has withdrawn support for the Syrian Kurds. I'll do an introduction. We start the show with the grim news that Donald Trump has announced the US will be removing their support for the Syrian Kurds in Rojava, giving the green light for Turkey…
…Kurdish autonomy and Kurdish self-determination within Turkish borders. borders. But since Monday, that American support has now been withdrawn. Trump announced yesterday on Twitter that the U.S. would no longer provide military cover for the Syrian Kurds, and…
…would be very helpful. Sadly, they're not. What really summed this up for me was I saw some American... Twitter account, Trump supporter, saying, oh, actually, the YPG, you know, these fighting forces in Syria and Kurdistan, allied to the PKK, the YPG…
…think that essentially Erdogan was pushing and pushing and pushing. And he knew that America is fairly inconstant. Eventually, you know, Trump has a tendency to listen to whoever the last person he talked on the phone with was. There's been endless…
…patterns i i have an article i i really want to write someday if i ever have the time on my work about Donald Trump as the sort of Bodie McBoatface of American politics. Trumpy McTrumpface, I guess you could call him. I mean, because he's basically a…
…certain portion of the electorate on the political class. Because it always struck me that, you know, what they're essentially saying of Trump is like, when we look at politicians, what we see is what you see when you look at Donald Trump. He's corrupt,…
…essentially saying of Trump is like, when we look at politicians, what we see is what you see when you look at Donald Trump. He's corrupt, he's ugly, he's stupid, he's loud, he's vulgar, he's... greedy and obnoxious. You know, he's a politician. He's just…
…stupid, he's loud, he's vulgar, he's... greedy and obnoxious. You know, he's a politician. He's just more so. And thus, watching Donald Trump interact with, you know, people who are supposed to be real politicians is almost like watching a room full of…
…working class, rural. And, you know, the guys who put him over the top were, you know, most of the working class didn't vote for Trump, of course, but most of them didn't vote at all. But the ones who did were the sort of rural guys, the small town…
…economy generates useless activity, which is soul-crushing and unnecessary with David Graeber, then got a lot to get to, including Donald Trump canceling his summit with Kim Jong-un, realizing he was being played by getting played by other people. There's no…
…Fox and Friends, the brain trust of the White House, and Brian Kilmeade actually was able to share the news with Trump himself, who was in Long Island yesterday, fear-mongering and lying about something else. And here's his breaking news answer. Some…
…that why do they seem to resent the cultural elite more than they resent the economic elite? So, you know, I mean, most Trump voters, for example, don't like. And of course, a lot of these guys are petty bourgeois, not really working class, but even…
…North Korea says talk's not productive, and Pompeo and the United States... are gangster-like. And across the ocean, as Donald Trump heads to get, hopefully, booed by the Brits, call it Mexit. Theresa May's government on brink of collapse. Meanwhile,…
…brink of collapse. Meanwhile, back in this hemisphere, Brazil in crisis. Judges issue contradicting orders about Lula's release. And the Trump administration can't seem to find those children that we kidnapped. And speaking of finding and Trump, he's set to…
…orders about Lula's release. And the Trump administration can't seem to find those children that we kidnapped. And speaking of finding and Trump, he's set to announce a pick at 9 p.m. tonight for the next Supreme Court nominee. It will either be a…
…will either be a theocratic regressive or a regressive theocratic. And the new deputy chief of staff for communications in the Trump White House has a racist wife problem. Not to mention a racist boss and co-worker problem. The U.S. government carrying the…
…the formula for corporations assaults breastfeeding. and continues a U.S. tradition of making the world not so great again. Trump administration cuts off funding for the risk corridors, and the Affordable Care Act premiums are set to skyrocket. Meanwhile,…
…but let's talk about the case of the United States and the case of the UK. Does the victory of Brexit, does the victory of Trump imply the end of neoliberalism? How can we read it using this particular set of tools that we have here in front of us?…
…2007, 2008. So it was a big Keynesian type thing. And I think it's interesting that... One of the things that Donald Trump is suggesting is a vast infrastructural investment program. And I think it's going to be very curious, because the Republican Party…
…Western world, fiscal policies have been ruled out. I think they're going to come back. I think that's one of the things that Trump is going to bring back. This also goes down to the question of class interest. I haven't mapped that in here, and this…
…ruling classes in the Western countries are mobilizing these nationalist, right-wing, populist, misogynist movements in Germany, France, the US with Trump and so on. So if you take your infrastructure policy for Trump, I guess I'm thinking of somebody else…
…populist, misogynist movements in Germany, France, the US with Trump and so on. So if you take your infrastructure policy for Trump, I guess I'm thinking of somebody else that had an infrastructure spending policy in the 1930s in Germany. Thanks, Alan.…
…now. What does it mean to be an American, an American citizen? What kind of values do we have? I mean, everybody looks at Trump and says, is that a model citizen? Is that who we want to be like? And there's actually an interesting kind of debate…
…you know, I just don't want to have any more to do with any of this nonsense. You know, and of course, with the Donald Trump effect, it's a considerable incentive to do exactly that. But I think that this, the issue right now is the fact of growing…
…Luxury Communism. Thank you both for joining me this evening. We're going to start by talking about the grim news that Donald Trump has withdrawn support for the Syrian Kurds. I'll do an introduction. We start the show with the grim news that Donald…
…Trump has withdrawn support for the Syrian Kurds. I'll do an introduction. We start the show with the grim news that Donald Trump has announced the U.S. will be removing their support for the Syrian Kurds in Rojava, giving the green light for Turkey…
…for Kurdish autonomy and Kurdish self-determination within Turkish borders. But since Monday, that American support has now been withdrawn. Trump announced yesterday on Twitter that the US would no longer provide military cover for the Syrian Kurds, and the…
…would be very helpful. Sadly, they're not. What really summed this up for me was I saw some American... Twitter account, Trump supporter, saying, oh, actually, the YPG, these fighting forces in Syria and Kurdistan, allied to the PKK, the YPG aren't all…
…think that essentially Erdogan was pushing and pushing and pushing. And he knew that America is fairly inconstant. Eventually, you know, Trump has a tendency to listen to whoever the last person he talked on the phone with was. There's been endless…
…inviolable, almost sacred thing. But of course rich people cancel their debts all the time. I mean how many times has Donald Trump gone bankrupt? And when they have the banking bailout. You know, they could have done two things, right? They could have…
Is Donald Trump an anarchist? No, no. I mean, Donald Trump is a classic corporatist. It's actually really interesting. When I say corporatist, I mean in the old-fashioned mid-20th century sense that corporatists are people who say that employers and employees…
Is Donald Trump an anarchist? No, no. I mean, Donald Trump is a classic corporatist. It's actually really interesting. When I say corporatist, I mean in the old-fashioned mid-20th century sense that corporatists are people who say that employers and employees…
…a form of political mobilization that lends itself to a certain form of nativism, at least, and racism, nationalism at worst. Now, Trump clearly made an appeal to that. He's a classic corporatist in that sense. And I think it's fascinating that he arrives…
…corporatist in that sense. And I think it's fascinating that he arrives at the moment he did, because for me, what Trump represents is the divorce between finance and real estate. Historically, real estate has been that sector of the capitalist class that…
…I want to move from Silicon Valley to actually making futuristic technologies and going to outer space and whatnot. Okay, so Trump is futuristic technologies, real estate, construction. That's why he wants to build a wall. His construction is the solution to…
…you point out, I never thought about it, is with the supervillains in a way that may have opened the door for Donald Trump, oddly enough. Because Trump is the kind of supervillain where his... Yeah, where people say, well, you know, Superman hasn't done…
…thought about it, is with the supervillains in a way that may have opened the door for Donald Trump, oddly enough. Because Trump is the kind of supervillain where his... Yeah, where people say, well, you know, Superman hasn't done SHIT for us, so why…
…didn't quite know how to interact with him, you know? Right. Go ahead. Yeah. It occurred to me that, like, you know, Donald Trump could be imagined as the Bodie McBoatface of American politics. Yeah. You're right. It's just like he's just. No, I agree.…
…the political clasp is what they're saying is like, when we see you, we see what you see when you see Donald Trump. You know, that's basically what they're saying. This is you, greedy, narcissistic, completely, you know, completely corrupt, lies all the…
…pay your debts, you're a bad person. I mean, unless you're rich, in which case it doesn't matter somehow. But if you're Donald Trump and you go bankrupt, they elect you president. But if you're an ordinary person, you're a deadbeat and a bad person. So…
…of Education. I think she's probably wrong about that. Maybe the racists that are coming out of the woodwork under the Trump administration haven't been explicit. about overruling brown but i'm sure many of them would like to but in congress people have…
…doesn't agree with him on everything, but she really is in the mold of Scalia, which is the kind of justice that Trump promised to appoint. Senator Whitehouse talked about the dark money behind her nomination and said that there was $250 million in dark…
…State Department, the CIA, the Pentagon all have their own foreign policy. And one reason why in the early years of Trump, Rojava was doing relatively well was because Trump had something against state. He was basically trying to dismantle the State…
…have their own foreign policy. And one reason why in the early years of Trump, Rojava was doing relatively well was because Trump had something against state. He was basically trying to dismantle the State Department to a large degree. He would fill any…
…large degree. He would fill any political offices there. Also, he wasn't too fond of the CIA, who was, you know, part of the whole Trump was a maligner of Russia movement, or at least a lot of people in it, but he loved the army. The army happened to…
…in that regard. But they don't make the decisions ultimately, right? Well, that's exactly right. But, you know, the weird thing about Trump is he loves military officers. And so if they're, you know, perversely enough, if there is a chance of a socialist…
…officers. And so if they're, you know, perversely enough, if there is a chance of a socialist revolution being saved, it's because Trump likes military officers. How ironic. I mean, in a way, it would make sense that they don't feel like they have to…
…know about, but construction and real estate. In a way, I think that the election in America between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump represented the divorce of finance and real estate, who before 2008 had made this kind of devil's alliance, fell apart…
…before 2008 had made this kind of devil's alliance, fell apart again. Now construction everywhere seems to be backing the populist right. Trump himself is a construction real estate guy. But if you look at it, Putin's party, you know, he was really founded…
…know, I mean, I'm like, yeah, I'd die on oxycodone, too, if I had that. You know, I mean, it's a nicer way to go. And Trump is their candidate. You know, it's like it's this giant fuck you. Like, OK, we're going to take the rest of you with us. You…
…five feet from him in the studio it's a little bit it's freaking me out just a little bit Another Monday, folks. Apparently Donald Trump is going to announce at 9 p.m. tonight who the Supreme Court nominee will be. I don't know. I mean, you know, it's…
…good for presidents to get subpoenaed while they're in office. I can only imagine that the reason why it's taking this long with Trump is that no, not one of the justices or the judges were explicit enough. in pledging loyalty to him i think they…
…super nauseous. This is an 11 and a 10 year old kid. They're two kids. They're at a Montana rally last week when when Trump came in. Right. And they're out there with MAGA hats on. MAGA shirts and listen to what their parents are teaching them. What…
…MAGA shirts and listen to what their parents are teaching them. What are the issues that are most important to you that Donald Trump has brought up this year? Um, he's building a wall. We don't want Mexicans. No. Or illegal immigrants. Uh-huh. And so why…
…with them, buddy. At the border. So we're working towards the goal is a borderless world, except in states that voted for Trump twice. If they want a wall. I mean, look, they're terrorists. Maybe we can come up with a compromise. Montana's beautiful,…
…and then we'll go to the fun half. The story in The Washington Post about how. how vicious people are being to the Trump... Here it is. It's viciousness, in quotes. Can you put this up on the screen, Matt? Viciousness. There's never any subtlety to any…
…someone else saying... No, I understand. I understand. It's just funny, these people's drama. But it appears that they're writing... Trump aides endure public fury towards the president's policy. But the first thing you should know about it is viciousness.…
…that actors in a play, particularly the actor playing Aaron Burr, concluded the evening by announcing from the stage that he was afraid Trump wouldn't uphold our what is it um our inalienable rights oh the horror ladies and gentlemen i let my kids i let…
…maligned. But here's the problem with why that's not going to work to motivate Republican voters is because I don't think the Trump voters are going to vote no matter what. but i don't think broadly speaking uh... republicans who would vote for trump…
…aggrieved. I mean, it's incredible. You've read the column that come out every couple of months about how hard it is for Trump administration officials, like in their 20s and 30s, to go to date in Washington. Oh, yeah, yeah. We talked about that last…
…that trickle-down racism yes he was correct Yes. They all feel like they now have this sort of license to express it. It's Trump time. And fortunately now I have my free speech back again where I don't feel guilty about telling the dirty immigrants to…
…hope is the only hope now for what I suppose for the people that live there and for the movement that's going on, that Trump changes his mind or that he's put under pressure? Trump has to be neutralized. I mean, it happened once before. It wasn't as…
…for the people that live there and for the movement that's going on, that Trump changes his mind or that he's put under pressure? Trump has to be neutralized. I mean, it happened once before. It wasn't as bad last time. You know, he had a phone call…
…State Department, the CIA, the Pentagon all have their own foreign policy. And One reason why in the early years of Trump, Rojava was doing relatively well was because Trump had something against state. He was basically trying to dismantle the State…
…have their own foreign policy. And One reason why in the early years of Trump, Rojava was doing relatively well was because Trump had something against state. He was basically trying to dismantle the State Department to a large degree. He would fill any…
…large degree. He would fill any political offices there. Also, he wasn't too fond of the CIA, who was, you know, part of the whole Trump was a maligner of Russia movement, or at least a lot of people in it, but he loved the army. The army happened to…
…in that regard. But they don't make the decisions ultimately, right? Well, that's exactly right. But, you know, the weird thing about Trump is he loves military officers. And so if they're, you know, perversely enough, if there is a chance of a socialist…
…officers. And so if they're, you know, perversely enough, if there is a chance of a socialist revolution being saved, it's because Trump likes military officers. How ironic. I mean, in a way, it would make sense that they don't feel like they have to…
…know about, but construction and real estate. In a way, I think that the election in America between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump represented the divorce of finance and real estate, who before 2008 had made this kind of devil's alliance, fell apart…
…before 2008 had made this kind of devil's alliance, fell apart again. Now construction everywhere seems to be backing the populist right. Trump himself is a construction real estate guy. But if you look at it, Putin's party, you know, he was really founded…
…that I noticed when I watched Nigel Farage interview Marine Le Pen was the difference in their views on deregulation. Trump openly loves deregulation, so does Farage, and Marine Le Pen says that she's completely against it. Which is fascinating, because…
…has to be regulated. They are themselves a form of regulation. What's going to happen in the US with the fact that Trump went for this left-wing thing, for unions and stuff like that? Where do you see all that going? It's interesting. It's clear…
…article on, she said that they're all distressed debt people in his, she didn't say all, but she said that the Trump crew in parliament or in government, they're distressed debt, they're ex-distressed debt. I call them buyout people or private equity…
…out really easily. A lot of it's internal bookkeeping money, and that they're just, like, using on paper for political advantage. And Trump actually said this. This is one of the interesting things during the campaign. He broke a lot of taboos, and some…
…else's disadvantage that would object. In the dollar system. Yeah, in the dollar system. But it creates a problem for people like Trump because if he wants to revive American industry, you've got to export some of that stuff to somebody unless you're going…