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Humanity is composed of flawed creatures with differing powers and capabilities. To think that we can have a perfect system that exists outside of the factual situation of actually existing human beings is utopianism. The state vs anarchy argument is a distraction from the recognition that with flawed creatures, we can only have flawed and imperfect systems. To be continually aware of these limitations & flaws is the only possible corrective; & yes, it is flawed & imperfect as well.

I wonder if you've run across post-left anarchism? Anarchy : A journal of desire armed was the main proponent. it came out of Colombia Missouri and the SF Bay area. Anarchy After Leftism by Bob Black gets into a lot of this.

Crispy, I agree with most of what you said. There is definitely a fundamental cognitive dissonance in the left regarding equality. I'm sure you're aware, however, there are and were different kinds of socialism. Marx wasn't he only kind. William Morris, Charles Fourier, Gustave Landauer, Robert Owen, etc, were opposed to Marxism. And nearly all 19th century and early 20th century anarchists explicitly called themselves socialists, and their positions 'socialist'. I agree with your conclusions, but let's at least get the history and nomenclature right. Scandinavian countries, with their socialist govts, are far more economically egalitarian than the US and UK. As for means vs ends, these do not necessarily have to be the same to produce an outcome consistent with the initial motivation. Fighting wars with enemies requires at least some authoritarian and hierarchical organization as it is more efficient and effective way of fighting. So yes, you can fight for peace, for example. It's not a contradiction. Long periods of peace can follow war. This obsession with "means must match ends" dictum is a logical fallacy, and the hobgoblin of small minds. Anyway, looking forward to your book.

It sounds like you haven't really read serious anarchist thinkers, Noam is largely rejected by the current anarchist movement. Means and Ends by Zoe Baker is an excellent history and defence of anarchist communisim.

I was always taught that when arguing against something, it's usually best to present the strongest possible interpretation of that thing. So I am immediately skeptical when you present the withering of the state as a straightforward "contradiction" of the form "Marxists would like to be rid of the state by enlarging the state." I myself never conceived of my Marxism in terms of simply expanding state authority. It wouldn't be very Marxist, e.g., to advocate for the expansion of the state's authority to break strikes, fight foreign wars, etc., particularly outside of the early 20th century death struggle socialists found themselves in against global imperialist capitalism. Far more important than the expansion of state authority is its capture. I do not want a greater state authority. My end is for state authority to be invested in and responsive to the majority of the international population rather than an extreme minority of particularly wealthy individuals. I believe that if that were to happen, it would destroy the utility of the state as an apparatus for the domination of the majority by a minority such that the majority would have no motivation to retain many if not most of its functions (standing armies and professional police forces, financial and monetary systems, property and contract law, much of modern tort law, etc.). I can very much understand why someone might take issue with that formulation. Marxists are constantly debating such things amongst themselves and with those coming from your anarchist tradition. Reducing analysis to the tired authoritarian/libertarian dichotomy just to come away with a trite and trivially false cold war era strawman of what lays "at the heart" of Marxism though I can't understand as anything other than political punditry.

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8:18 child rape, abuse, fraud ,crime, misogyny, racism & narcissism & an unaddressed mental illness epidemic are all the causes of all left right bull shit

2:47+ You are a brilliant dude if you copy & research all my work at my stable platforms you will find proof & facts that support your argument as the reality -- you re totally right I hope my work might inspire even more bolder pronouncements from you in the future one you have the time to take a look & research what I have posted (I have been & am pro gov & LEO because they are all ive ever had & the only stable people ive ever known the civilian pop is above & beyond way more flawed & fucked up than they could ever be unless they are a minority of corrupt members of these gov orgs which the gov & leos kick out eventually anyways especially with reforms going on a decade + & LE rapidly becoming a stem)

Thanks for sharing some real food for thought. But was disappointed, if not surprised, that your critique came with zero practical proposals.

The only way of having an egalitarian economy is to have a very rich, extremely small elite and everybody else poor. It's the only way. And this what communism is all about. Many people view Cuba or USSR or North Korea or even China as Communism failures. They are not. They are Communism SUCCESS. Because that's the final goal of Communism. Anyone who remember the world before the fall of Berlin wall, must admit that the communist world was more egalitarian: the very vast majority of the population in the Varsaw Pact were equally poor. Like 99,99%.

He sings about socioeconomics and the what capitalism has become. The woods sessions are my favorites

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Interesting observations. I see more Dylan and less bs analysis. Which you want to dismiss cause obvious you like rapist candidate

I was wondering who the Jordan Peterson was who he refers to in God, Abraham, and Xanax. Anyone know?

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Karl Marx Lives as philosophy declared as opposed calls itself a fraud null and void, as western philosophy has been based much on nonsense and the fraud of its stale poetry to put down those who oppose it for its experiences displace its words and its words displace its miserable existence of decadence based on frauds hidden within frauds where they waste our time in the study of what they themselves devolve denounce decry destroy and demolish from the ashes arise "fascism or social revolution" for they leave nothing else of what is less than meaningful for those like Alfred Jules Ayer admitted he invented it as a fraud unleashed upon society as a cruel joke.

You must have shot this with the intention of blurring your face, right? I mean, it’s just not possible in 2024 to mistakenly make such a horrible video.

Welles' is fantastic ❣️ haven't listened to Morningstar yet...

Crispin, you are it seems to me very correct about the points you outline. From having lived in the London Anthro eco-system during the years that Graeber was around I would add: You might have in mind that LSE (London School of Economics... and Social Sciences) is an old colonial institution of the most modern type and has for about 3 decades acted as a think tank for whoever might be governing and/or in opposition and has produced major government ideologues that also helped in advancing programmes as well. One of the chief requisites for being hired at the LSE is however is not an interest in government per se but being an idea person savvy to getting media recognition and appearances. As far liberalism goes ...I think that neo-liberalism is the actual currency of trade in this context, and in this sense an anarchist with a set of polished anti-government grudges is just another member...at the party. Another interesting thing about Graeber at this time is he noticeable changed his outfits to a rather grubby, worn, used but ultimately 'old school' tweeds and corduroys and brown leather shoes. Also as far vocab and diction in the book (which I admit I have not read yet) how do you separate David G from David W ...much of what sounds odd for G might really be W writing ...perhaps beyond the scope of his training as a Cambridge theoretical archaeologist. And mind you as far as generalities go you will be hard pressed to find a schooled British intellectual who is not an almost innate liberal of some stripe at heart. regards, j

he obviously rejected Jesus Christ and God as his creator and what the book of revelation says will occur. Read the bible folks it explains everything. Curious though if he ever investigated / critiqued the economic structure foundations behind "Social Credit" ( a now corrupted word) from the 1930's in Quebec ?

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I hope that isn't Little Walter playing right at the start, because that had beginner marked all over it. Walter was good back in the day at that simplistic stuff but in 2024 it is very very average in fact basic.

Weird. I always thought of 2nd position (cross harp) as up a 4th rather than down a 5th. It's hard to find a 5th down, but easy to find that major 4th by going up the major scale. At least for me. I can't go down from 1st to 5th, but I can go up from 5th to 1st. Natural interval for Latin trumpet music. Survival harp pack: (Cross-Harp 2nd position version) Key of A - D harp Key of E - A harp Key of C - F harp Key of G - C harp Always good to have an E-flat harp, because the key of B-flat is open tuning for trumpet and tenor sax. I've used B-flat harp quite a bit in the key of C minor. 3rd-position version: Key of Dm - C harp Key of Cm - Bb harp Dm is the key in which I did the most chromatic harp, because the chromatic C harp is laid out a lot like 3rd-position on a regular diatonic harp. Of course, real masters can just play in any key with a chromatic.

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These videos are awesome. Thank you, professor.

This is excellent

At 33:28 you label Graeber as leaning towards state socialism despite the fact that he explicitly makes the case that state is a meaningless term. Make it make sense.

Again at 26:43 you claim that Wengrow & Graeber are arguing that liberalism is created by indigenous peoples as a critique; but that’s not what they argue at all; they simply show that it was those indigenous critiques that forced European thinkers like Rousseau and Hobbes and Diedrot to start asking new questions and formulating new answers. Those indigenous thinkers influenced the trajectory of the Enlightenment but were not its architects. Subtle but important difference.

Again at 26:43 you claim that Wengrow & Graeber are arguing that liberalism is created by indigenous peoples as a critique; but that’s not what they argue at all; they simply show that it was those indigenous critiques that forced European thinkers like Rousseau and Hobbes and Diedrot to start asking new questions and formulating new answers. Those indigenous thinkers influenced the trajectory of the Enlightenment but were not its architects. Subtle but important difference.

This seems like a very superficial critique; at 15:46 you mistakenly think he’s ridiculing Occupy Wall Street and his earlier positions, but this is just a lack of imagination on your part. To attack this brilliant man after his death on such spurious grounds says more about you than it does David.

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Was Graeber ill during the writing of The Dawn of Everything, and is it possible this changed his outlook or reflections? I read Debt and intend to reread it but recall not being entirely convinced by all of his arguments. He seemed to de-emphasise developments in European states from the early Middle Ages through the Reformation and the point when many of those states became imperial powers. Life would remain nasty, brutish and short for most people with those entities, but no state could compete with increasingly technological, bureaucratic and mercantilist enemies unless it adopted those same techniques. States can “progress” in certain ways without being progressive.

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A few thoughts from someone who took your Philosophy Of Art class (and your Intro To David Allan Coe) at UVa: I wonder whether "good" (read: "effective") political art, like "bad" art, delivers a single, transparent message, requiring no interpretive work from the viewer. The remarkable thing about the Trump photo is the speed of implementation. The transition from PowerPoint presentation to James Brown encore was complete less than 90 seconds after its conception. The whole "Republicans are weird" thing seems like a great example of a political text that functions on the aesthetic level. It's designed to cause the listener/reader to get the "ick". There's no rational response to the statement. I do find it odd that "journalists", who conceive of their purpose as standing up for the downtrodden, are now unironically taking a pro-bullying stance. And I wonder how far this discourse will trickle down in our society. As the school year gets underway, will third-graders now have to face playground insults like "your mama thinks Israel has the right to exist", or "your daddy favors cancelling the electric-vehicle mandate"?

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Always dangerous to comment before I finish watching the video (I've seen the first 25 minutes so far), but the paper is interesting and I have thoughts that I don't want to forget. I can think of an argument for why moral responsibility requires some form of free will -- I'm not sure if it's a great argument, but it's good enough that I'll share it for the sake of discussion. A liberal could argue that the reason responsibility is tied to free will is that it's fundamentally unfair to treat people differently based on things they can't control. In essence, our equal capacity for rational decision-making demands that everyone be afforded a certain degree of equal respect, and it follows from this that only a person's choices justify breaking that default respect and punishing them. So if a person is punished for a reason that doesn't stem from their choices, they're essentially being punished arbitrarily -- since they can't control the thing that causes them to be punished, it's wrong to break the default respect that all humans are owed (e.g. it's wrong to violate people's rights). So on the one hand, there are big problems with this liberal line of reasoning. It's not clear that all humans are equally capable of rational decision-making (this line of thinking has the dangerous implication that children or mentally disabled adults are morally worth less than others), and this argument also more or less imagines all humans in a context-less vacuum, devoid of things like their history and their different abilities and places in society. On the other hand, this is a very common articulation of why bigotry is wrong, since bigotry also punishes people for things they can't control, and that example might demonstrate why some find it a dangerous idea to say that you can be morally responsible for something out of your control. But regardless, in my opinion, the reason that morality is tied to free will so commonly is that it follows very clearly from liberal ideas that have been dominant in western philosophy for centuries. Perhaps that is obvious, and perhaps you even say that in the parts of your video I haven't watched yet, but I just wanted to articulate this before I forgot.

In regards to being rational, I think it’s important that philosophers bring up the fact that game theory is involved when it comes to topics such as law and economics. Also, legal fictions such as businesses use the social sciences, which isn’t based on reality as it’s not the natural sciences, it has no intellectual virtue and worth

Has your position changed now that there are regions such as rojava where a chunk of a country has been functioning as an anarchist region for many years.

Thanks for the conceptual analysis, Prof. Sartwell