The New Yorker on David Graeber

[Os Cangaceiros]

The New Yorker turns a critical eye on Graeber and the "anarchist revival"

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2013/05/13/130513crat_atlarge_sanneh

[ed miliband]

i love kliman's trolling of graeber:

http://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/alternatives-to-capital/the-make-believe-world-of-david-graeber.html

[Os Cangaceiros]

I like David Graeber. Not so much his ideology, more his personality. He seems like a good guy. Good guy Graeber, lol.

Although I do agree with him on some things, like his opinion that OWS being taken over by the WWP and MoveOn.org would've resulted in it's complete irrelevance on day 1.

[ed miliband]

i kinda met him once, when i volunteered at a radical bookstore in london; he came in and was asking why they didn't have his books (not in a dickhead sorta way, tho i tell it like that because it makes for a better anecdote), then he started talking about the book he was writing about debt. and so it was...

[Os Cangaceiros]

The story would've been so much better if he had said something like "don't you fools know who I am?! I'm David Graeber!"

[blake 3:17]

The article has stuff on James C. Scott. I read his Seeing Like A State last year and highly recommend it. They get him half right. His kind of anarchism is mostly critical thinking, but when thousands of peasants are doing that together, things get a little wilder...