[lbo-talk] What the results tell us...

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 9 06:52:51 PST 2006


Thanks, Tayssir.

Yes, YouTube served me with a copyright violation notice for putting the Charlie Rose interview w/ anarchist professor David Graeber there. YouTube removed it. It's probably still on chomskytorrents.org.

Last I heard, Graeber was still fired for supporting a labor organizing drive, but never received as much attention here (or anywhere, it seems like) as Ward Churchill did. (Though Doug admittedly said Graeber deserved as much support as Churchill -- he just never got it, though.) My suspicion: he's an anarchist, and not the kind of prof. Marxists or Dem-leaning liberals want to see in academia anyway. (Someone also weakly offered it was because Graeber didn't have tenure like Churchill, so his dismissal didn't matter as much.)

I'm sympathetic to a large part of the anarchist tradition, unsympathetic to some more recent parts of it (Primitivism? "Post-Letism"? Um, thanks, but -- no.)

Thanks about the comment about the World Burns to Death interview, also. Even they agreed it was probably the best interview they've given. Every day I'm more sympathetic to their "bring the troops home in body bags" sentiment. I wonder how many Nazis got off the hook for saying they went into France and Poland or other horror factories, because they thought when it was all over they'd get good job skills, or college money. Killin' for college! Nuremberg Principles, as I recall, don't care about "the economic complexities" of individuals' backgrounds when they commit atrocities for years on end.

(Americorps is a non-military govt. program you can enlist in and get college money/job training from, too -- and it doesn't require (in)directly causing the deaths of 600,000 human beings, either!)

-B.

Tayssir John Gabbour wrote:
> Yeah, having done more research on anarchism (due to
your awesome interview with World Burns to Death, among other things), I think it's a mistake to identify oneself too closely with anarchism. It's just too huge a subject; many strains are just very objectionable and ideological, even when I learn a lot from them. Some others make all the sense in the world...
>
> Maybe like the political left wing, I guess.
>
> Oh yeah, too bad Youtube took down the Graeber
interview on Charlie Rose (I recall you posted it, hope my memory serves me...)
>
>
> Tayssir



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