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.
…Precisely. Absolutely. I agree. The comedian Stuart Lee talks about how... There's a video on YouTube where he talks about how Margaret Thatcher went to a university and asked one of the girls there what she was studying, and she said, ancient Norse…
…Thatcher went to a university and asked one of the girls there what she was studying, and she said, ancient Norse poetry. And Thatcher said, oh, what a luxury. Yes, it's a good one. I want to live in a society where people can study that. What...…
…Richard Nixon, and then if you want to talk about a long 68... lots of social movement people say, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. But after 2011, you have the victory, even if you don't like these people from the point of being an anarchist, the…
…to pay for it? Who is going to pay for it? And given the politics that began with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and all the rest of it, which was effectively repression of working class institutions and organizations and repression of working people.…
…Felix said, I know this is not fiscally important, but it's important for the shock value. So it's really, it's also, or as Margaret Thatcher said, we need to remake people's souls. There's a bit of soul remaking going on. Yeah, and that's why I think a…
…we're gathered here today to mourn the passing of one of the great leaders of the conservative revolution, I'm referring to Margaret Thatcher, of course, I think it's worth noting the massive irony that the very city that the free marketeers and the…
…these, And it's never taken seriously as a consideration. We talk about political systems as sort of absolutes. So, you know, Margaret Thatcher was the great example of somebody who tried to extrapolate from the corner shop to the whole economy sort of…