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short collection of essays, I like the first one that asks "are you an anarchist? the answer may surprise you." Good work. I enjoy Graeber's books and I now got a taste of his essays.'
The revolution begins by asking what sort of promises do free men and women make to one another , and how, by making them, do we begin to make another world.Six short and very thought provoking essays that stand as an attack on the neoliberal/capitalist camp. In the first three essays, he begins by pointing out that what is often seen as the failure of popular social movements to bring about change over the last 50 years is better seen in terms of their successes. He is also at pains to make it
Six essays, with three being fairly related, and three being somewhat separate. Though, to be fair, these are all about Graeber's larger intellectual projects: revolution, anticapitalism, organization, debt/capital, and political blindness (sometimes willful blindness).The first three essays deal with popular movements of the last thirty or so years that have led to mass direct action networks. The first attempts to reframe how we view them and their immense successes. The second and third deal
Great collection of Graeber's essays, but terribly copy edited. Typos and other errors were distracting enough that I couldn't recommend owning this edition, especially as much of Graeber's short pieces are easy to find and read online.
Many of the ideas are better explored in Utopia of Rules. The essay Army of Altruists was very good.
Very powerful and nuanced ideology critiques on both capitalism and poststructuralism. David Graeber and Mark Fisher are a lot more honest than their contemporaries. And a lot more materialist.
Graeber bir sosyal bilimci, ama bu kitapta anti-kapitalist, muhalif örgütlerde mücadele eden insanlara bir politik eylemci olarak sesleniyor. 2000'lerdeki karşı küreselleşme hareketlerindeki deneyimleri üzerinden "devrim mümkün mü, peki nasıl" sorularını tartışıyor. Graeber mücadelenin egemenlerin üzerinde etkisi olduğunu gösterirken muhaliflerin kendi güçlerinin farkında olmadığını belirtiyor. Bu muhaliflere moral verecek bir yorum ama muhalifleri kendi gücünün farkında olmamakla da eleştiriyor...
In Revolutions in Reverse, David Graeber explores the relationship between state violence, ideology, the apparent worldwide failure to imagine alternatives to the way in which capitalism is currently developing, the crises of representation that are affecting most 'mature' democracies (or should I say economies?), and the debt crisis we currently find ourselves in. In other words, he explores the relationship between the above-mentioned crises and our mental conceptions of the world. But, differ...
A very thought-provoking collection of essays on a variety of topics by David Graeber. This really inspires me to read his book 'Direct Action: An Ethnography,' which I've been putting off cause it's so damned huge. There are definitely some gems in here, though, and I'm really down for reading more by my fellow wobbly. My one complaint, and I'm not the only one to put this out there, is the horrendous quality of the editing. Some of the pieces have obviously been published elsewhere and seem po...
3.5 stars on balance (possibly due to my personal preference for deep-dive into long form expositions instead).Review later perhaps, but the six essays try to start (rather than actually have) a conversation about revolutionary theory, choices and action that are needed, not just in our current political/financial/climate crisis, but perhaps on a continual quest for more just, egalitarian and non-alienating forms of social organisation. (It was also clear that the author is very much influenced
One of the most persuasive attacks on capitalism/neoliberalism I've read - but they need to do another edition and fix the several hundred typos
Anarşizmle tanışırken David Graeber'in neşeli tarzını tanımak bana şans oldu. Önemli bir yazar olduğunu düşünüyorum ama bu kimin umrunda olur, kimsenin... "Tersine devrimleri" anlatırken günümüzün mitinglerini eylemlerini eskinin devrimlerinin tersi olarak nitelemesine şaşırmıştım. Bir de şu katıldığı eski tüfekler toplantısını betimlemesi çok komik ve öğreticiydi aklımda kalan Bifo isimli düşünürün dediği günümüzde artık kalan geçerli siyaset yapma biçimi olarak "intihar" eylemini unutmuyorum,
Very compelling, insightful and thought-provoking. Recommended for anyone who's interested in how change comes about.The last essay almost caused me to drop a star - it feels a bit niche, and it's not my niche - but even there, there are bits that make it all worthwhile. The discussion of parallels between politics and magic is particularly fun:'Politics is that dimension of social life in which things really do become true if enough people believe them.'
short, and some doubled up material from Utopia of Rules (I think).Read Rules first, and if you need more you can find it here."Freedom has become the right to share in the proceeds of one’s own permanent enslavement.""Debt is the most efficient means ever created to take relations that are fundamentally based on violence and violent inequality and to make them seem right and moral to everyone concerned."etc etcInteresting section was one of why people join the army, boils down to basically: sam...
Actually liked this a lot. Utopia of Rules was the first Graeber book I read and that one borrows quite a bit from some of the ideas in this collection of essays. I would definitely suggest this book rather than Utopia of Rules. I prefer this collection of shorter and longer essays. Graeber asks the difficult but important questions. I think Graeber is hyped, but there are really not that many like him out there, who combine the practical experience of being involved in recent social movements a...
