I'm obviously going to have to have Zoomtext read Graeber's book to me. This is based solely on the selection posted in Lou's blog.
In that selection, & in his replies to Michael, he simply fails to recognize how tyrannical bourgeois freedom (to which Michael calls attention) is -- the freedom from means of production and the free choice which the worker must make to seek employment. That is a form of coercion unique to capitalism, and its centrality to capitalist societies is what makes capitalism not only oppressive and exploitative (as all class/caste societies are) but an actual threat to human survival. And only when that threat is fully grasped is it possible to ground anti-capitalist struggle in other than mere moralistic judgments of the nasty capitalists. Note: I am assuming that anti-capitalism is the central category; one need not be a Marxist to grasp the capitalist threat. But one does need to see, on some basis, how historically unique capitalist freedom (and therefore capitalist tyranny) is. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
