[lbo-talk] On Theorizing the Demand for Demands

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 24 18:28:44 PDT 2011


On Oct 24, 2011, at 9:14 PM, Mike Beggs wrote:


> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> [From Wikipedia, alas]
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>> Anarchist anthropologist David Graeber has distinguished the two philosophies as follows:
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>> • Marxism has tended to be a theoretical or analytical discourse about revolutionary strategy.
>> • Anarchism has tended to be an ethical discourse about revolutionary practice
>
> This is true, but of course it's not the only definition.

Of course, but there do seem to be these tendencies, no?

And it's not like Graeber is some marginal figure in anarchism.

Doug



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