[lbo-talk] Graber on consensus

[shag carpet bomb]

agreed. although I'd say that, in general, it has been anarchists who've 
been maintaining activist networks by getting involved in often very local 
movements, as well as often disparaged protests, who've keep a flame alive 
for decades. Graeber merely fanned a book near embers by doing what 
theorists and thinkers should do: he gives clarity to the "struggles and 
wishes of the age" with a language - already in us, but clarified and 
documented -- that helps them understand themselves. (This approach to 
social science is documented in the work of Alan Tourraine as to the role 
that intellectuals might play in social movements) Sure, Graeber's work is 
polemical. It damn better be because we get enough mealy-mouthed crap on 
all sides.

Meanwhile, as I listen to people bitch about the current shithole in the 
beltway, there's talk of an Occupy-style uprising. That kind of talk 
wouldn't have gone on among ordinary, non-political, non-activists 5 years ago.

At 09:54 PM 2/28/2013, Carrol Cox wrote:
>Graeber lit the match that created a real flame of hope for leftists in 40
>years. Let him/her that has done 1/1000 as much for human hope as Graeber
>chatter about him.
>
>Carrol
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