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David Graeber: From Occupy Wall Street to the Revolution in Rojava - Kontext TV

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Jul 16, 20269 June 2017University of Hamburg David Graeber talks about his experiences with the Global Justice Movement
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David Graeber argues that Rojava’s revolution is a rare historical experiment in bottom-up democracy, but it faces serious threats from bureaucracy, state-like structures, and class reproduction. Drawing on global justice and Occupy, he warns that opening to the outside world may reintroduce hierarchical logic unless the movement preserves its autonomous, confederal institutions.

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