David Graeber - April 2017 - Re-Thinking Resistance: Smashing Bureaucracies and Classes

Summary

The speaker argues that Rojava is a historic democratic experiment threatened by bureaucracy, state logic, and external pressures. Drawing on anti-globalization and Occupy, he emphasizes bottom-up self-administration, dual power, and the need to preserve autonomy, class awareness, and safeguards against creeping bureaucratization as the region opens up.