Thanks Andrew. we know that anarchism is a political ideology/perspective that has developed mainly from within petit-bourgeois sectors of capitalist (or becoming-capitalist) societies
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 6:43 AM Andrew Pollack <[email protected]> wrote: > > Something I posted to this list a few years ago on Graeber's "Debt." > > "The heart of the problem with his [Graeber's] theory is that he takes the > economic tools of debt and currency, and creates a historical schema in which > first one then the other is dominant. Then he overlays that scenario onto > successive historical periods in which the dominance of currency leads to > expansionary states, which to keep themselves going force subordinate classes > and nations to rely on such currency. > > "It's like a bourgeois sociologist privileging any given isolated social > phenomenon as THE explanation of history. > > "And Graeber has nothing to say about modes of production, nor about the laws > of motion of capital, nor about the labor theory of value. Actually, he does > have something to say about all of them: he thinks they're meaningless. > > "His 'solution' is declaration of a jubilee, freeing us from most of our > debts, so the cycle can begin all over again. > > "And it's no accident that his Proudhonist ideas rely so heavily on the > presumption of state domination of the economy." > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1450): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1450 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76754797/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
