Monday, December 5, 2011

David Graeber — Situating Occupy


Perhaps the greatest world historian alive today, Immanuel Wallerstein, has argued that since 1789 all major revolutions have really been world revolutions.
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Situating Occupy — Lessons from the revolutionary past.
by David Graeber

Think globally and aim big.

Graeber concludes:
Of course this could be the first moment in yet another round of recuperation and defeat. But if we are witnessing another 1789, a moment where our most basic assumptions about politics, economics, society, are about to be transformed – this is precisely how it would have to begin.

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