David Graeber has died
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I know him more from twitter than his books (I’ve flicked through debt) but he was a serious campaigner with interesting ideas that were needed.
59 is not a good innings. We didn’t agree with a lot of what he said but there was still enough common ground to be able to discuss differences sensibly, as for instance here on whether or not capitalism is based on wage labour.
“We didn’t agree with a lot of what he said but there was still enough common ground to be able to discuss differences sensibly…”
You reckon?
In November 2019, along with other public figures, Graeber signed a letter supporting Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn describing him as “a beacon of hope in the struggle against emergent far-right nationalism, xenophobia and racism in much of the democratic world” and endorsed him in the 2019 UK general election.
In December 2019, along with 42 other leading figures, he signed a letter endorsing the Labour Party under Corbyn’s leadership in the 2019 general election. The letter stated that “Labour’s election manifesto under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership offers a transformative plan that prioritises the needs of people and the planet over private profit and the vested interests of a few.”
I know but I didn’t want to speak too much ill of the dead on the day after they died.
Ok, he said to vote Labour under Corbyn and so was (like Chomsky) a peculiar type of anarchist, and he also subscribed to currency crank theories about banks. But what I meant was that he used the language of anti-capitalism and so like others (Picketty, Paul Mason, David Harvey) contributed to making “capitalism” a dirty word, so making it easier for us to get a hearing for our case.
And his exchanges with us were courteous enough.
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