[lbo-talk] Graeber's latest...

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Fri May 11 04:41:32 PDT 2012


Doug: " So instead of public schools, as he once suggested to me, we could have parents and teachers take them over and run them as cooperatives."

[WS:] Don't forget that he is an anarchist. Such sentiments are all over his writing. They appeal to anarchists and, I may add, neoliberals. After all, an anarchist is a neoliberal without money.

OTOH, he seems to be right on the money to insist that economic relations are always embedded in social relations, and therefore there is not such a thing as "global capitalism" or single economic rationality for that matter. He does that mainly to question the validity of economic theories that tend to employ 18th century fairy tales window-dressed with mathematical abstractions while viewing actual social behavior as aberrations and deviations from "pure rationality." And for doing this he deserves a huge credit. Let's face it, the "dismal science" emperor has no clothes, but few people seem to notice.

-- Wojtek

"Modern conservatism is just a neoliberal gloss on medieval domination."



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