"if US military will not confine itself to North America, I would at least wish it doesn't go anyplace new. Okay? That's my position."
I have mixed feelings about David. I do like him; I also see how his academic career and his flash of fame has distorted his vision.
That said, his piece in the Guardian was the only thing I've seen in mainstream news that sheds some light on an important situation. That's one thing that intellectuals do... inform.
What I also see is something like a religious war going on among the left w respect to David (pace Carrol) that is NOT good, that clarifies nothing, and that is very reactive.
Joanna
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On Oct 9, 2014, at 1:27 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Sorry but this is fucked up.
>
> Is it bad faith for intellectuals to write about historical events without taking up a gun?
He was saying some strange stuff about intervention on Twitter. In The Guardian piece, he cited ancestors who went to fight in Spain. What he actually wants now he didn't make clear, but some of his tweets made it sound like he was encouraging some sort of U.S. intervention. Which is fucked up in many ways, but especially so for an anarchist.
I know you like Graeber, but more and more people are finding him a bit of an egomaniacal clown. Thus the Kickstarter.
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