Interview on the role of unions, the challenges posed by automation and “the revolt of the caring classes”
David Graeber
David Rolfe Graeber (February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011) and Bullshit Jobs (2018), and his leading role in the Occupy movement, earned him recognition as one of the foremost anthropologists and left-wing thinkers of his time.
Interview on anarchism, Syria, the bureaucracy of activism and a visit to Rojava where a new kind of society is developing
The autonomous region of Rojava declared with a “social contract” in 2011 as three anti-state, anti-capitalist cantons, was a remarkable democratic experiment
Amid the Syrian warzone a democratic experiment is being stamped into the ground by Isis. That the wider world is unaware is a scandal
Capitalists spread prosperity only when threatened by global rivalry, radical movements and the risk of uprisings at home
Spotlight on the financial sector did make apparent just how bizarrely skewed our economy is in terms of who gets rewarded”
Arbitrary violence is nothing new. The apparently systematic use of sexual assault against women protestors is new
The recent defeat of gun buyers’ background check legislation in the Senate—legislation backed by an almost unimaginable 90% of the American public—has…
As the history of past movements all make clear, nothing terrifies those running America more than the danger of true democracy breaking…
David Graeber is a professor of anthropology at Goldsmith’s, London, and a left-wing political activist. His most recent book, Debt: The First 5,000 Years,…
