[lbo-talk] David Graeber on the Kurdish struggle

JOANNA A. 123hop at comcast.net
Thu Oct 9 10:27:40 PDT 2014


Sorry but this is fucked up.

Is it bad faith for intellectuals to write about historical events without taking up a gun?

Did all of us who wrote about Israel/Palestine go to Palestine to fight? Were we publicly shamed because we didn't go to Palestine?

Joanna

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On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> On Twitter, Graeber weirdly sounded as if he were endorsing some sort of
> US intervention, though he was slippery on the details.
>
> The invocation of Spain was interesting. If we followed that model, David
> should be picking up an AK-47 and heading off to join the Kurdish
> anarchists.
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