Re: David Graeber is Gone: Revisiting His Wrongful Termination from Yale Archived Message
Posted by Ian M on September 5, 2020, 6:49 pm, in reply to "Re: David Graeber is Gone: Revisiting His Wrongful Termination from Yale"
He called for US airstrikes on the Turkish military if they attacked Rojava: 'What I am speaking of here instead is the feeling that foiling imperial designs — or avoiding any appearance of even appearing to be on the ‘same side’ as an imperialist in any context — should always take priority over anything else. This attitude only makes sense if you’ve secretly decided that real revolutions are impossible. Because surely, if one actually felt that a genuine popular revolution was occurring, say, in the [Rojava] city of Kobanî and that its success could be a beacon and example to the world, one would also not hold that it is better for those revolutionaries to be massacred by genocidal fascists than for a bunch of white intellectuals to sully the purity of their reputations by suggesting that US imperial forces already conducting airstrikes in the region might wish to direct their attention to the fascists’ tanks. Yet, astoundingly, this was the position that a very large number of self-professed ‘radicals’ actually did take.' https://issuu.com/plutopress/docs/revolution_in_rojava_-_foreword/6 Quoted in this counterpunch article lamenting Trump's troop withdrawal from Syria in 2019: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/04/why-are-leftists-cheering-the-potential-demise-of-rojavas-socialist-experiment/ What's Uncle Sam going to ask you to do for him in return for all those helpful bombs? Somehow I don't think it'll be helpful to your participative democratic/anarchic/feminist social experiment in the long run... I
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