Reviews
The Anarchy Project
David Graeber’s account of Occupy Wall Street is essential—and somewhat maddening in its insistence on heightening the differences between anarchists and liberals.
The Democracy Project by David Graeber
Rationality yields to sentimentality in an Occupy Wall Street-inspired call for direct action, Fred Inglis finds
The Democracy Project: a History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber – review
David Runciman is shaken from his apathy by a call for a new politics in a book that asks why the Occupy Wall Street protests worked
THE DEMOCRACY PROJECT
A HISTORY, A CRISIS, A MOVEMENT
Resolutely, proudly left wing/radical/anarchic with an exuberant optimism that usually keeps the tendentious text aloft.
Cheerleaders for Anarchism
The financial crisis of 2007–2008 inspired a shallow but significant revival of Marxist analysis in academic life. A violent upsurge in theory, however, has corresponded to no particular insurrection in practice. If any radical left tendency has been responsible for inspiring action, the palm should go to Marxism’s historic antagonist on the Left—anarchism.
Book review: Democracy Project shows protest still important, but what’s next?
In his provocative new book, David Graeber examines the American political system from an activist's perspective.
Review: The Democracy Project
Understanding social movements, what causes them and makes them succeed, are the elusive questions that David Graeber’s latest book, The Democracy Project. A History. A Crisis. A Movement, confronts in response to the contemporary Occupy movement.
The Democracy Project
This book isn’t just about the Occupy movement itself, but about the possibility of actual democracy in America. And the opening up of the radical imagination Occupy allowed.
(Intended title: “As if We Were Free.”)
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