Barricade Bulletin 10 - October 2020
Issue 10 of Barricade Bulletin, with articles on strikes and redundancies in response to the pandemic, Derry IWW's plans for an autonomous social centre, the Anarchist Black Cross, anarchist prisoners in Belarus, Azerbaijan and Spain, international solidarity with Bangladeshi garment workers, community resistance against gold mining in Ireland, anarchism, work, a review of the Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin, and obituaries for Stuart Christie and David Graeber.
Anarkista Ka Ba? Alamin! — David Graeber
Gender egalitarianism made us human: A response to David Graeber & David Wengrow's 'How to change the course of human history' - by Camilla Power
In an ambitious recent article in Eurozine David Graeber and David Wengrow try to rewrite the narrative of human history. They attack the ‘myth’ that humans had once enjoyed equality and freedom in hunter-gatherer bands, until the invention of farming sent us down the road to social inequality.
David Graeber's Homage to Rojava
The imperialists and the ever-faithful Western “Lefts”, led by chronic NATO-cheerleading “Academic Anarchist” David Graeber and the effervescent celebrity-left cling-on Charles Davis, are attempting to appropriate the Syrian Kurds and engineer a situation in Syria very similar to events that occurred during the Spanish Civil War – both from the perceived propaganda angle with regard to the “Lefts”, and the concrete with regard to the imperialists.
The utopia of rules: on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy - David Graeber
According to Graeber’s bureaucratic procedures “are invariably ways of managing social situations that are already stupid because they are founded on structural violence.” But what Graeber means by structural violence is a system “that ultimately rests on the threat of force,” whether police officers, drill sergeants, tax auditors, or all the other agents who support a system that spies, cajoles and threatens. This complex of definitions lands Graeber squarely in the anarchist tradition, and though he layers contemporary anthropological theory into his analysis, he serves up a clear and generally jargon-free argument.
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