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A review by lizshayne
The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
Weird how a book written 11 years ago about events that happened 13 years ago is absolutely history.
Low lights definitely include getting rid of abortion rights as an example of a thing that Republicans might pander to their base about but never do and talking about the riots of 1968 at Columbia as "remember when people were actually horrified by universities setting violent police on their own students?"
I'm not entirely where Graeber is ideologically, although I continue to find his way of seeing the world completely fascinating. (Perhaps what I lack is the courage of my convictions. And Graeber is also a cautionary tale of how easily institutions can banish someone without lifting a finger. So there's that.)
I was a student on the other side of the country when the Occupy movement really took off in NY (speaking of things that are history now).
This book is both a cautionary tale in writing for the future in the present and also a prescient vision of the choices coming up and how bad it can get if we keep going the way we are.
This book makes me want to imagine an anarchist classroom.
Low lights definitely include getting rid of abortion rights as an example of a thing that Republicans might pander to their base about but never do and talking about the riots of 1968 at Columbia as "remember when people were actually horrified by universities setting violent police on their own students?"
I'm not entirely where Graeber is ideologically, although I continue to find his way of seeing the world completely fascinating. (Perhaps what I lack is the courage of my convictions. And Graeber is also a cautionary tale of how easily institutions can banish someone without lifting a finger. So there's that.)
I was a student on the other side of the country when the Occupy movement really took off in NY (speaking of things that are history now).
This book is both a cautionary tale in writing for the future in the present and also a prescient vision of the choices coming up and how bad it can get if we keep going the way we are.
This book makes me want to imagine an anarchist classroom.