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David Graeber - American Anarchist

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Brian Rose

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🗓️ 8 November 2015

⏱️ 114 minutes

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David Graeber - American Anarchist
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0:00.0

This week on London Real, we have the anthropologist, anarchist, and professor at the London School of Economics, David Graber.

0:11.0

They talk about democracy, democracy, we live in a democracy. Democracy is what makes us great.

0:15.2

We're going to kill people to defend democracy, but we don't actually believe democracy.

0:25.0

Everything we do is regulate, everything. But we don't think about it, the fact that you're constantly being threatened with violence every moment of the day.

0:30.0

Direct action means try to solve your own problems rather than try to get

0:37.1

other people to intervene. There's a natural disaster everybody reverts communism, ironically because it's the only thing that works.

0:47.0

The whole idea of not forming links of political parties, not taking money, is you'll never be in a position where you say

0:53.8

one thing in public and another thing at home.

0:57.8

London Real presents David Graber American American anarchist.

1:04.0

I think we managed to get the government really scared.

1:08.3

This week on this show, we have the London School of Economics Professor,

1:12.4

Mr David Graber.

1:14.0

He is an anthropologist, an anarchist activist

1:18.0

and was one of the guys literally on ground zero

1:21.0

for the Occupy Wall Street movement.

1:23.0

He coined the term, we are the 99%.

1:26.5

David is the real deal.

1:28.4

He's been pushing against government in a huge way.

1:32.1

His entire career was thrown out of Yale in America which is why he's here in London

1:36.6

He's got amazing ideas including a book called debt the first 5,000 years. He talks about the concept of bullshit jobs,

1:44.0

and it took me, I think, nine months to finally get David

1:46.5

to come to our show, but it's well worth the weight.

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