david on neoliberal capitalism

david graeber on neoliberal capitalism

via david graeber‘s revolution in reverse.. but adding page while reading rhythm of developing thought by Claudio Sopranzetti:

In the first pages of a collection of essays titled Revolutions in Reverse .. offers a seemingly eccentric definition of neoliberalism:

Neoliberal capitalism is that form that is utterly obsessed with ensuring that it seems that, as Margaret Thatcher so famously declared in the 1980s, “there is no alternative.”

In other words, it has largely given up on any serious effort to argue that the current economic order is actually a good order, just, reasonable, that it will ever prove capable of creating a world in which most human beings feel prosperous, safe, and free to spend any significant portion of their life pursuing those things they consider genuinely important. Rather, it is a terrible system, in which even the very richest countries cannot guarantee access to such basic needs as health and education to the majority of their citizens, it works badly, but no other system could possibly work at all.

..this reflection can help us rediscover his role as a poet of anthropology not because, as Aristotle said, he wrote in verse, but rather because his attention was directed more to the possible than to what has happened, more to providing spaces for imagination than to describing and analyzing the present.

huge.. ie: letting go of cancerous distractions.. and instead trying/seeing a legit nother way

.. In this sense, judging Graeber’s opera for not being the work of a historian means missing the leitmotif of his intellectual and political project.

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david graeber ons et al

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