David Graeber @davidgraeber Twitter profile

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

4 years

this video is going up in a bunch of places but here's mine: my take on the AS controversy and why intentionally fanning the flames, as so many are doing, endangers Jewish people

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David Graeber

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4 years

as for the Guardian, we will never forget that during the "Labour #antisemitism controversy", they beat even the Daily Mail to include the largest percentage of false statements, pretty much every one, mysteriously, an accidental error to Labour's disadvantage

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David Graeber

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4 years

much though I hate to admit it, I had nothing to do with making this up

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

6 years

@margarethodge Speaking as a Jew, let me say I consider your behavior so vile as to itself be anti-Semitic, since crying wolf like this for cynical political advantage means when the real anti-Semites start mobilizing no one will take the warnings seriously

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David Graeber

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4 years

I don't know who writes these tweets but they should be fired. This is either awful PR or intentionally trying to alienate someone for internal political reasons. If you're non-ideological, doesn't that mean you're not socialist OR pro-capitalist? Why leave one of the two out?

Extinction Rebellion UK 🌍

@XRebellionUK

4 years

Just to be clear we are not a socialist movement. We do not trust any single ideology, we trust the people, chosen by sortition (like jury service) to find the best future for us all through a #CitizensAssembly A banner saying ‘socialism or extinction’ does not represent us 🙏🏽🙏

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David Graeber

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so it's official: Ronald Reagan became President of the United States by committing the crime of high treason. To offer to pay a declared enemy not to release American officials they hold hostage is about as clear an example of treason as you can get 1/

Jacobin

@jacobin

4 years

A batch of quietly released documents confirms what many have long suspected: Ronald Reagan’s 1980 presidential campaign worked behind the scenes to delay the release of US hostages in Iran, for the benefit of Reagan’s election campaign.

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David Graeber

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in Aug 2019 I tried repeatedly to get a piece in the Guardian suggesting anti-Corbyn saboteurs in the LP were fanning the flames & doing so was itself #antisemitism . Editor told me explicitly I would NOT be allowed to criticise Corbyn's critics motives

For the first time in my life, I'm frightened to be Jewish

And non-Jews attacking the Labour party aren't helping.

www.opendemocracy.net

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David Graeber

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5 years

it's a far far better meme than I have ever done

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4 years

Whoa! This is when revolutions happen. When this sort of thing becomes widespread

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David Graeber

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5 years

it took me two months of trying to get this out anywhere at all. The level of censorship in the British media on this subject is beyond imagination. Jewish people are simply not allowed to say certain things in the UK today and this is chief among them:

For the first time in my life, I'm frightened to be Jewish

And non-Jews attacking the Labour party aren't helping.

www.opendemocracy.net

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

4 years

What if we defined "the economy" as "the way we take care of one another"? Since that's what it ultimately is. What would economic indicators then look like?

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David Graeber

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4 years

after having done everything they could possibly think to to do to throw the election to a far-right bully, the UK media is shocked, shocked, to discover they too now have to deal with a far-right bully

Journalists stage mass walk-out after Downing Street bars critical reporters

The BBC's Laura Kuenssberg was one of those journalists who walked out after colleagues were barred from a briefing.

metro.co.uk

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David Graeber

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4 years

so my #antisemitism video has been up a day and half now & already has over half a million views, which I'm pretty sure counts as viral. Number of UK reporters, media people who have contacted me so far: zero.

David Graeber

@davidgraeber

4 years

this video is going up in a bunch of places but here's mine: my take on the AS controversy and why intentionally fanning the flames, as so many are doing, endangers Jewish people

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David Graeber

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According to pretty much every publisher I know Jeff Bezos is personally responsible for the destruction of the book industry. They can no longer pay most authors anything as it all gets squeezed by Amazon.

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I must admit I've always been cynical about the media, & the UK media is among the worst, but even I am sometimes a bit incredulous that they can just collectively pretend the #LabourLeaks scandal didn't happen.

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this is the "cred" they built up by publishing people like me, . @OwenJones84 , . @GeorgeMonbiot , . @chakrabortty - all of whom I very much respect. They used us so no one would believe they would simply lie to destroy any chance of a left gov't. But that's exactly what they did.

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David Graeber

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5 years

So excited. My garden Noam has finally arrived.

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David Graeber

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4 years

for those who dream of a return to "normalcy": normalcy was standing on the tracks watching an oncoming train & arguing about how fast it was going. Something just banged into us & sent us sprawling. It hurt. A lot. Now let's get up, but NOT get back on the tracks again.

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David Graeber

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4 years

Conspiracy theory of the day: the US Democratic establishment don't want to beat Trump. They know only Bernie could actually win, & are terrified by even the mildest socialism. Trump gives them policies that favour the rich (themselves) & the chance to feel morally superior

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David Graeber

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5 years

remember any Turkish invasion of Rojava will be a NATO invasion of Rojava. Any genocide they carry out will be NATO genocide

America's Kurdish allies risk being wiped out – by Nato | David Graeber

Turkey is seen as the Kurds’ mortal enemy but it uses German tanks and British helicopters: this is an international outrage

www.theguardian.com

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David Graeber

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4 years

2017 - Corbyn moves the party to left, runs on accepting referendum results. Kept red wall & makes massive gains. 2019 - Corbyn runs as Remainer candidate, is massively abandoned in Leave constituencies. Media conclusion: Corbyn too far to left. Elect a hard Remainer!

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David Graeber

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6 years

if there was anything that really set my thinking on the path that led to the bullshit jobs book, it was probably this brilliant meme

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David Graeber

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4 years

THE FUTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED. That's ok. It was a really bad future. Now let's come up with a different future. (credit to . @Julio_Linares_ for the phrase)

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David Graeber

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what precisely do people mean by "getting the economy up again"? If the economy is how you keep people alive, fed, clothed, housed, etc, the economy was still running during lockdown. So in what sense is "the economy" coming back when lockdown is lifted? 1/

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4 years

We are experiencing a deadly epidemic. Why do people in the UK seem to feel that it is perfectly normal that the government is handling it largely through slogans? So much so that they calmly discuss whether the new slogan is better than the old one? Are we collectively insane?

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David Graeber

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5 years

I've never been married before. Even though the proper ceremony is later, in London & Berlin, I have never been more moved than that someone who actually knows me would want to be with me forever.

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Going for a wedding

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4 years

Everyone's waiting for the pandemic to end so they can get on with the Depression.

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5 years

this is extraordinary. It marks a new development in international relations. A major military power has invaded another country with the declared aim of committing war crimes, and the UN has effectively okayed it. So much for Nuremberg principles. They are officially dead.

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David Graeber

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4 years

well that was really smart: just at the moment that capitalism is at the brink of total collapse, & the entire world will be debating what's to come next, the UK has decided to no longer have an anti-capitalist opposition party. Good move. You're now officially irrelevant.

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David Graeber

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Remembering David: it's been 3 years since his death. This is David's last video taken in Berlin the day before we left to Venice. David would die a few days later.

apologies and about that exciting new pirate book!

sorry we've been sick and on holidays but the kings book is ready! Also, we're going to do another one. The next one will be about pirates. And pirates are m...

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

4 years

if you add up false with misleading, 90% of Guardian news articles on IHRA controversy were designed to trick the reader into falsely believing Labour was institutionally #antisemitic . This was an historical crime against truth. Who were editors? They need to be shamed for this.

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David Graeber

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4 years

The US is gone, i don't want China as my overlord... If we were forced to choose one country to put in charge of the world, under its current government, or even just to replace the US as hegemon, who would that be? I'm thinking possibly New Zealand?

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David Graeber

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4 years

I can't tell you how many people I know (some quite prominent celebrities) who have tried to send a column or letter to the Guardian defending Labour from its attacks or just expressing support things & have been instantly rejected #dumptheguardian

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David Graeber

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4 years

the BBC is not a public broadcaster, it's a state broadcaster. One thing I've come to learn about the UK is that the Tories ARE the State. Labour is occasionally tolerated as long as it is basically pursuing a Tory agenda. #boycottbbc

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4 years

what's about to happen next week could be seen as a test of the fundamental decency of the British public. The idea of "rightwing populism" (21st century fascism) is that you know the Leader is lying, but don't care, because you want to be part of the winning team 1/

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David Graeber

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5 years

future historians will see the post-2015 Guardian as a priceless resource. Day to day, it documents of how the UK's middle-aged professional managerial classes, having allied themselves entirely with finance capital, collectively lost their shit as young people embraced socialism

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4 years

we're starting to recognize that the more directly your work benefits others, the less you're paid & worse you're treated. With the pandemic, some also these 'essential' or "front-line' workers are also those expected and willing to risk their lives for the sake of others 1/

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4 years

It's going to be interesting, when my next book comes out, to explain to my publicist why I will have nothing to do with either BBC or The Guardian

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David Graeber

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4 years

maybe we need to get a document going of left intellectuals pledging that unless the Guardian changes its aggressive anti-Labour editorial policy instantly, we will never write for or engage with them again.

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David Graeber

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4 years

Just to make my position utterly clear: it's my profound wish that Boris Johnson swiftly recovers from COVID-19, then utterly fails at everything else he attempts in the most humiliating way possible, is ousted by a popular uprising & remembered by history only as an evil buffoon

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David Graeber

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4 years

hmm I'm hesitating. Normally I'm happy to talk to journalists, but BBC News isn't journalism, they're paid state propagandists who engaged in years of overt slander vs the opposition to give us a far right regime already responsible for thousands of deaths

Ellis Palmer 📻

@EllisPalmer94

4 years

@davidgraeber Hello there! My name is Ellis Palmer and I’m a producer at @BBCNewshour . Would it be possible for you to follow me, so I can ask you a few questions?

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David Graeber

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5 years

One reason I felt I could write the pro-Corbyn piece I did despite being Jewish is because being from NYC I don't have any family in the UK. That's literally how bad it is. People warned me: they come after your family.

Lila Rose

@infiniterosee

5 years

Here is just some of the abuse I’ve faced since opening up about me and my family’s own personal experience. I’m not the only one this is happening to. This is what antisemitism looks like.

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David Graeber

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4 years

@dominicboyle @Curious_Chak @lewis_goodall the Labour Party under Starmer will abandon its core idealism & principles and it won't even gain tactical advantage. It will be a party which gives no one a reason to vote for it, and no one will, in fact, vote for it.

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David Graeber

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5 years

To make clear what's happening in N. Syria: men who believe women belong in the kitchen are killing, torturing, & blowing apart women who are trying to create a women's revolution in the Middle East. The US, and now even the UN are actively helping them do so. #riseupforrojava 1/

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David Graeber

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The first major activist movement in the US after independence were the Abolitionists & I wonder sometimes if they set the tone for US activism - it's peculiar characteristic puritanism - in ways we rarely acknowledge 1/

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David Graeber

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4 years

this is very important. For 10 years now we've been fed a lie that "capitalism" is causing massive reductions in global poverty. In fact global poverty has been getting worse. Now COVID is making the debacle precipitous . @jasonhickel

Philip Alston

@PhilipGAlston

4 years

Today I am releasing my final report as UN Special Rapporteur. I find that global poverty is rising, and that a decade of misplaced triumphalism has exacerbated the worst impacts of the pandemic. My statement: . The full report: .

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David Graeber

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4 years

the Guardian is not a left-of-centre paper, it's a centre-right paper trying to masquerade as left to try to redefine the political spectrum to convince us that the only viable positions in the world are Macronism or Donalf Trump.

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David Graeber

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last week the Guardian contacted me to write a piece about Black Friday. I responded no but I'll gladly write about how the Graun's editorial policy contributes to the rise of global fascism. Needless to say they did not respond. 1/

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David Graeber

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4 years

just remember everyone: when #BBCNews announces with alarm that the BJ government is introducing a program to dismantle & privatise them & begs for our help, let's all just tell them they're a bunch of conspiracy theorists.

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David Graeber

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whenever someone tells me they wouldn't want to live 300 years, because they'd be bored, I say to myself: wow, that is a genuinely boring person. If I discovered i'd live for centuries, I'd instantly start learning 5-6 languages, 2-3 musical instruments, & nuclear physics

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David Graeber

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According to scientists working on animal play, when two rats play fight or play compete, the bigger rat lets the littler rat win 30% of the time just to keep life more interesting. Learning this made me extremely happy. The universe isn't as bad as we like to think.

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David Graeber

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Gandhi believed that if you can overcome injustice non-violently, that's best. But he also insisted opposing injustice violently is always morally superior to sitting back and not doing anything at all.

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David Graeber

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this is just utterly shocking: after we discover that Labour Party staff were actively trying to lose elections, actively refusing to act on antisemitism claims to damage the party... who's going to get fired? The whistleblower, of course!

Labour Staff In GMB Union Back 'No Confidence' Motion In General Secretary Jennie Formby

Motion by GMB chapel sparks row with rival Unite and piles pressure on Keir Starmer to act.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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David Graeber

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4 years

here's the youtube version of my #antisemitism rant. Why did I make it? Mainly because it had to be said and I got tired of waiting for someone else say it.

David Graeber another Jewish voice on antisemitism and Jeremy Corbyn

Graeber talks about real antisemitism on the right of politics

www.youtube.com

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David Graeber

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since the '70s, US investigative journalism basically died. Journalists rely on handouts & official leaks & most look with suspicion on unofficial leaks.They are servants of power. It Watergate happened today, most mainstream journalists' instinct would be to go after Deep Throat

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David Graeber

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I keep hearing dire predictions that "the economy' (GDP) will decline, in many countries, as much as 35%. This is treated as cataclysmic. My reaction: wait, everyone is locked at home & economic activity only decreased by A THIRD?? Huh? What is the "economy" anyway?

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David Graeber

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20 years ago alarmists were saying if we don't do anything, there will eventually be ecological catastrophes that will set off chaos, war, unrest, millions of refugees will flee; rich countries will turn fascist & create walls to keep them out... People: it's already happening.

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David Graeber

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key point, "it's not our hedonism that's destroying the planet, it's our puritanism," the fact we feel everyone has to be working constantly, regardless of whether there's anything needs to be done, to justify our consumer pleasures

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David Graeber

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4 years

can we please stop doing capitalism now? it had a good run. But at this point it's just getting kind of silly.

Shaun Gallagher

@WRALShaun

4 years

What a waste! #COVID19Pandemic is forcing Dairy farmers to dump their milk down the drain so the milk market doesn’t implode. Why not give it away to those who need it? We’ll get to the bottom of it at 6:00.

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This pretty much sums up my views of the recent British election

The Center Blows Itself Up: Care and Spite in the ‘Brexit Election’ | David Graeber

The simultaneous embrace of markets, and of rules and regulations, represents the soul of what’s sometimes called “centrism.” It’s a decidedly unlovely combination. Nobody truly likes it. But the...

www.nybooks.com

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When people say Starner would "unite the party" what they really mean is "we understand now that the Labour right are such nihilistic, vindictive bastards that they'll campaign against their own party if they don't get their way & we feel this behaviour should be rewarded."

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7 years

Bought a children's book at the market today

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It's like stealing candy from babies and not even eating it. In practice, we seem to have created a world so perverse that denying creative people any benefit from their creation is an end in itself. You do it so as to revel in your very power to do so.

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the movement has successfully reduced Winston Churchill to a fortified abstraction #blacklivesmatter

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this was perhaps the most retweeted statement I ever made, it's been made into memes, discussed widely. Yet every attempt I have made to write a similar article for the mainstream press has been systematically turned down. Apparently in the UK, no Jew is allowed to say this.

David Graeber

@davidgraeber

6 years

@margarethodge Speaking as a Jew, let me say I consider your behavior so vile as to itself be anti-Semitic, since crying wolf like this for cynical political advantage means when the real anti-Semites start mobilizing no one will take the warnings seriously

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You know that the professional-managerial class has taken over the Labour Party when they think people will find it acceptable to respond to the release of a report detailing internal sabotage, by declaring they will commission a report about the report . @KeirStarmer

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David Graeber

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we tried to warn you. But you knew what you were doing, didn't you, . @davidschneider et al? You pretended an anti-racist social democrat was an antisemite so that actual Nazis and White Nationalists could seize the reigns of power.

Kerry-Anne Mendoza 🏳️‍🌈🍉

@TheMendozaWoman

4 years

Well done to the celebrity Centrists who enabled this far-right government because they were more scared of sharing.

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I feel bad for the protestors on the streets in Iran. They had the gov't genuinely scared, braved hundreds of killings... then of course Trump intervened & popular opinion shifted massively to the government. A lot of good people are going to suffer in the resultant repression.

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David Graeber

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@bygeorgist @holski_beat @guardian I will never write a word for the Guardian ever again - well, unless they have a complete change of management and editorial policy, which isn't going to happen.

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old Latin American joke: "why do they never have any coups in the United States?" "Because there's no American Embassy there to organise them."

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Trump declares that he's not a fascist, he's just an anti-anti-fascist.

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highlight from Sky news story about the Corbyn-haters in LP admin who intentionally didn't act on AS complaints, lied to Corbyn saying they were addressing the problem, & then lied to the media saying Corbyn wasn't addressing the problem

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David Graeber

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ok, . @guardian , . @BBCNews - now if some in the Labour bureaucracy were intentionally *not* pursuing AS complaints by Jewish party members, i.e., not sanctioning or expelling antisemites, so as to hurt Corbyn, um. ISN'T THAT A FORM OF #ANTISEMITISM ? Why isn't this news?

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Okay can anyone explain to me why this is bad? Why is this information secret to begin with?

PoliticsVideoChannel

@politvidchannel

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BREAKING: Russia is trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine data and research from America.

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I was talking to my step-son & he made the reasonable point that many young people look at the right, and the left, & the first thing they notice is that people on the left all seem to hate each other. Right-wingers spend much less of their time condemning each other publicly 1/

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@Baddiel it's when you claim the markets will solve all problems so you create even more bureaucracy to "unleash market forces" on everyone but the rich

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Living in the UK is the first time in my life I felt genuinely physically endangered as a Jewish person, and I lay this directly at the feet of cynics like Margaret Hodge & Tom Watson. It's as if they are trying to create the antisemitism they pretend to decry.

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if there were a God, there would be a special place in hell reserved for moralists who joined in the smearing of Britain's most dedicated lifelong antiracist so as to elect a far right gov't, then pretended to bemoan the rise of "intolerance" that resulted . @davidschneider

Tom London

@TomLondon6

4 years

Hypocritical sanctimony from a man who joined in the bullying of an innocent man. CORBYN IS NOT AN ANTISEMITE and a moment’s examination of the so-called evidence shows that. Welby SILENT on poverty, penury, hunger & homelessness before election

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Blair sold out Labour's principles to get Murdock's support to get 43%, Corbyn defied the entire media & got 41%

The Facts Proving Corbyn’s Election Triumph

Watching the BBC’s coverage of the election, you could be excused for taking away two main impressions of last night’s results. First, that Theresa May

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David Graeber

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Korean poll: who was the most evil character in Harry Potter? Here's the answer, out of a sample of 9024: 1. Voldemort : 5% 2. Bellatrix Lestrange : 3% 3. Severus Snape 1% 4. J.K. Rowling : 91%

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rant for the day: it is becoming apparent to me that liberals actually enjoy talking about or even defending to far right much more than they do the far left, presumably, because it heightens rathe than threatening their sense of moral superiority 1/

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David Graeber

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okay, just how over-the-top fascist do Erdogan's legions have to get before NATO and EU leaders get just a little bit concerned?

Giran Ozcan

@GiranOzcan

5 years

What the hell is this!? Video is from the #Turkish -uccupied Kurdish city of Afrin in northwestern Syria. These Turkish-trained Nazi saluters are after the #Kurds in the whole of northern #Syria .

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maybe it's just me but I do sometimes wonder how Facebook ever became an essential organising tool for anti-authoritarians in the first place. Maybe this might be a good moment to revive Indymedia? We need our own means of communication.

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This is my message to all those "I hate the right but I don't like Corbyn" folk. A victory for LP will put social democracy on the map as a viable ideology globally. It'll change peoples perceptions of the possible.

Rachael Swindon

@Rachael_Swindon

4 years

A Labour win would be a massive win for a vast majority of our country, but it stretches beyond that. A Labour win would ignite the desire for real change across the planet. When Labour win, the whole world wins. We have a huge responsibility to deliver. And we can. #GE2019

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David Graeber

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4 years

leaked from Meltwater (corporate media monitoring tool). Mentions of phrases in press: 2015 Labour Anti-Semitism 1 result Conservative Anti-Semitism 0 results Tory Anti-Semitism 0 results: 2016 Labour Anti-Semitism 2.52k results Conservative Anti-Semitism 0 results 1/

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

4 years

ok I can say it: my entire experience of Paul Mason was either 1. saying "we should meet about strategy" & him saying "definitely" then blowing me off, & 2. him letting my mate buy him a drink, lecturing him on working class values, then buggering off w/out buying the next round

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

6 years

always remember this when the media drones on about Corbyn laying a wreath for someone perhaps connected to something 40 years ago, or sitting in a room with someone else... These terror attacks are happening RIGHT NOW with full British support. Why are they not front-page news?

David Graeber

@davidgraeber

6 years

The Saudi Arabia gov't, whose ruling ideology is very close to that of ISIS, is responsible for 50+ terror attacks on civilians in Yemen, including a recent attack on a bus that killed 26 schoolchildren. The UK fully supports this terror campaign.

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

4 years

this is what I hate the most about neoliberalism: it tries to destroy human community, & hence, human collective intelligence (knowledge, experience, collaboration) on every level, on the excuse of outsourcing it onto managers trained in business school

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

4 years

this is the actual text of what the editor told me

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

4 years

And the amazing thing is that almost all the money that would be going to authors, who mostly could actually use it, just goes to Bezos personally, so he can say "look! I have another 10 billion! Oh! And another 10 billion!" He doesn't even use it.

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

4 years

@mishtal Islamists ARE far right. They just happen to be far right Muslims. Remind me what far left people assaulted a Jewish person recently? Because I'm drawing a blank. I mean I suppose there must be one case somewhere ....

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

4 years

what did I tell you? The Guardian exists to ensure the left never has any chance of taking power in the UK. That is its self-appointed function. I really do wish people who do not share that aim would not validate its claim to be actually *be* the very thing it exists to destroy

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@zei_squirrel

4 years

btw the guardian is of course already working at full capacity to destroy any chances for a left replacement of corbyn

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

5 years

In France, and only in France, my BSJ book was on the national bestseller list. I have 2 new books coming out in French that aren't even coming out in English. The College de France asks me to give talks. Le Monde asks me to do columns. Should I just learn French & move there?

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

4 years

electing Boris Johnson before a time of national crisis brings home 2 truths about the UK: 1. British people are better at making fun of themselves than perhaps any nation on earth 2. British people have perhaps more reason to make fun of themselves than nation on earth

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

4 years

by what possible journalistic standards is the discovery that there was a faction in the Labour Party actively trying to lose the election not a story? How after literally thousands of stories about 'institutional antisemitism' in the LP is that suddenly not a story either?

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

6 years

@richardcalhoun @ProfSteveKeen @margarethodge People who aren't assholes tend to like me well enough

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

4 years

yes by no means go to Library Genesis or Sci-hub that would be wrong. Scholars certainly would never want their research to be freely available to other scholars or people who just find it interesting, God forbid. That might advance human knowledge! We can't have that.

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

5 years

well there's an approach no one seems to have thought of!

Vala Afshar

@ValaAfshar

5 years

Finland is ending homelessness by actually giving people homes. 🇫🇮 Since 2009, over 7,000 permanent homes have been provided. @Benioff

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

4 years

they basically don't let me write about British politics, but often try to get me to write on other topics. I realise now: they basically want to use people like me as their beard. To gain left cred so when they attack democratic socialism people will take them more seriously 2/

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David Graeber

@davidgraeber

4 years

Boris Johnson is a heartless bastard but I'm not, so I wish him a speedy recovery.

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