The Debt Resistors Handbook (David Graeber and others)
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New publication written by David Graeber and other which sees debt default as a tactic for social change.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/105906094/Operations-Manual
Haven’t looked through it yet.
Yes, he does seem to have become obsessed with debt and getting rid of it rather than concentrating on getting rid of wage-labour (which you’d think a card-carrying member of the IWW might prioritise).I see he’s speaking at the Anarchist Bookfair in Queen Mary’s university in Mile End, London, on 27 October, but as he’ll be with Chris Kinght I imagine this will be on his specialist subject of anthropology:http://anarchistbookfair.org.uk/whatson.htmlI see their talk is followed by one by the ineffable Michael Albert and his ridiculous “parecom” scheme. That’s one to give a miss.
Quote:12 noon – 1.30pmLIFE WITHOUT CAPITALISM 2 speakers: David Graeber and Chris KnightPoliticians repeatedly tell us that we must suffer years of austerity just to revive the capitalist economy. Yet, for 95% of our time on Earth humans have lived without capitalism – and for most of that time without states, classes or money. What can we learn from our non-capitalist past and how can we live a non-capitalist future? The discussion will be initiated by two radical anthropologists: DAVID GRAEBER (anarchist and author of ‘Debt, The First 5,000 Years’) and CHRIS KNIGHT (marxist and author of ‘Blood Relations’ and (online) ‘2017 – the anthropology of the future’).Apparently, he’s also speaking at the “Anarchist Economics” meeting later that afternoon:
Quote:4.30pm – 6.30pmAnarchist Economics Even amidst economic crisis, experts and politicians tell us that, ‘there is no alternative’. When the Left proposes an alternative it is invariably the Marxist one of nationalisation and often just seems a mirror-image of capitalism as usual. Anarchists by contrast have explored and experimented with economic alternatives for 172 years. At this meeting a panel of speakers will discuss some of these experiments. We hope this will evolve into an open discussion taking up at least half of the available time.Speakers include: David Graeber, Iain McKay and others“the Marxist one of nationalisation” ! No wonder they won’t let us have a stall there. We might shatter their illusion that Marxists stand for nationalisation when we’ve been denouncing this as state capitalism for over a hundred years. See for instance:http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/pamphlets/nationalisation-or-socialism-1945
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