can anyone call a struggle session anytime they want or is there a formal registration process?
Graeber was great, the only celebrity death that really hit me. People calling him a radlib haven't read 5000 Years of Debt.
Graeber was great, the only celebrity death that really hit me. People calling him a radlib haven’t read
Could have stopped there to be fair.
I mean, he supports federated coops as the unit of socialism which is pretty lib, but the quality of his analysis and its usefulness to radicals let me give him a pass
I haven't seen that take, so I don't know how lib it is. That sounds just like his usual view of anarchism.
It's in Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, which is otherwise good and also short, go read it
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-fragments-of-an-anarchist-anthropology
Extrapolating from the 150 or so pages of Debt that I read, Graeber owns. RIP.
Graeber? I barely even had consensual and romantically fulfilling ass sex with her! Ahahahahahahahahabahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahwhhahahahahahahahahahaahahaahahahahhahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahwhwhahahahahahaha
You must submit an official PPB-69 form with one of the admins to file for a struggle session
I'm in this picture and I actually kind of like it :kropotkin-shining:
Graeber is good, and his work is very informative and pretty useful for modern times (many other well written material pieces like the bread book feel pretty dated even if the concepts apply). Really the worst thing about his work is the section in Debt that talks about Communism explicitly. Where most of his other prose is forceful and authoritative up to that point, he sidetracks to discuss the popular idea of communism and its just dull and flim-flammy. It undermines a key idea that comes up over and over in Debt, that people need something better and that utopia isnt outside of the conception of our reality, in fact we've been close before.
i think you might be right, but i've always had a bit of a different take: in short, i think he plays a bit of a dirty rhetorical trick with the word "communism". from what i remember he completely tosses out both the marxist and the historical interpretation of the term in favour of using it to mean a very broad, fuzzy, anthropological category of human relations, in contrast with "hierarchy" and "exchange". i think he does this both because the slogan "from each according to their abilities to each according to their needs" has such strong descriptive power, and to make the later point that while all these relations will exist in any given society, it's possible for any to be more or less dominant, and you could actually imagine a society where communism is the dominant form of human relation. the soviet union, for all its successes and lurches in the right direction, wasn't really that, and iirc that's graeber's take from the rest of his work
it still does bother me a little though, because i think he loses some of his potential appeal to communists who could learn a lot from his anthropology, and it's not like tossing the word communism into positive lighting ever gained much favour with liberals
