Get Started for FREE
Sign up with Facebook Sign up with X
I don't have a Facebook or a X account
 Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
David Graeber speaks The Debate is facilitated or chaired by Amrita Bhohi, Proposing the motion is Mark Goyder, founder director of Tomorrows' Company, the ... 
No comment yet.
Sign up to comment
Scoop.it!
Keiser Report: Sovietization of capitalism (E723) with David Graeber
Scoop.it!
Russell Brand and professor David Graeber have called for the debts of "ordinary people" to be cancelled in an impassioned attack on "mafia capitalism".
Scoop.it!
From
zcomm
Back in the 90s, I used to get into arguments with Russian friends about capitalism. This was a time when most young eastern European intellectuals were avidly embracing everything associated with that particular economic system, even as the proletarian masses of their countries remained deeply suspicious. Whenever I’d remark on some criminal excess of the oligarchs and crooked politicians who were privatising their countries into their own pockets, they would simply shrug.
|
Scoop.it!
Rules, queues and paperwork help make daily interactions predictable, anonymous and superficially egalitarian in ways from which most of us benefit
Scoop.it!
Privateers were buccaneers to whom a king granted legal immunity and safe harbor in return for a share of the booty. Their charge was to extract physical wealth from foreign lands and peoples by whatever means—including the execution of rulers and the slaughter and enslavement of native inhabitants.
Scoop.it!
This exchange is from a conversation in Paris between David Graeber and Thomas Piketty, discoursing on the deep shit we’re all in and what we might do about climbing out. It was held at the École Normale Supérieure; moderated by Joseph Confavreux and Jade Lindgaard; edited by Edwy Plenel; first published by the French magazine Mediapart last October; and translated from the French for The Baffler by Donald Nicholson-Smith.
Scoop.it!
David Graeber: Capitalists spread prosperity only when threatened by global rivalry, radical movements and the risk of uprisings at home
|
