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.
…look at the list there's a couple of people notable in their absences we've not got President Trump or Theresa May or Emmanuel Macron. And all of these sort of people, I think it was described in The Independent as putting out fires rather than actually…
…to the streets in protest. We're back at where we started in the sense that the great irony of Davos 2019 is that Macron can go to the neoliberal annual meeting because he's fighting opposition to his neoliberal policies at home. I spoke to David Graeber…
…to get access to any social services, they have to drive further and further as they cut things off. And Macron, the new hyper-centrist, hyper-market-friendly neoliberal president, announces that he's going to make a green energy proposal. He's going to raise…
…So these policies have already been hitting people very, very hard. And this was just seen as a direct blow, especially since Macron had just given this enormous tax cut. to the wealthiest people in the country as encouraging them to stay in France,…
…years, there was something called which means up all night, basically. It was a rebellion against reforms in the labor law. When Macron came in, you have to understand that France is in a very interesting situation because it's a situation where there was…
…all, really. And in a way, he's like, desperately trying to make it about right-wing issues because really the only excuse for Macron, and very few people actually support him, is that he's not a fascist. So unless he can't paint his opponents as…
…to soak more of it in. And those are the guys who are the techno-managerial classes who tend to vote for someone like Macron and see them as reasonable centrists and basically hate democracy. So this is the rhetoric that is set up, this kind of…