David Graeber strikes from the grave

[Young Master Smeet]

Or, at least, is the subject of a Radio 3 programme

I’ve not listened yet, but posting for info.

Radio 3 doing it’s job well, I suspect of informing the minority that matter.

[DJP]

For Graeber, anarchism was equal with ‘democracy’ as practised through consensus at things like the Occupy movements. He was not a communist in any sense of the term, and his ideas may actually be counter-productive. See in the Standard the longer review of his book with Wengrow, for example.

Incidentally, there’s more anarchism on the BBC here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07k3ngy

I think there’s an episode of ‘In Our Time’ too.

[Young Master Smeet]

Well, his idea that all societies are communist to some degree (‘base line communism’) suggests he thought the baseline could be moved: but he had an American predilection for direct action, and was very much in the Chomsky pragmatic mode.

[alanjjohnstone]

“his idea that all societies are communist to some degree”

Capitalist society – social production but private ownership

[Young Master Smeet]

Well, more like that we have communist roads, and some form of welfare: that line of what everyone thinks it’s acceptable to share versus what it costs them: I suppose his idea was directaction could move that line…

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