Revolutions in Reverse

Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination

Paperback, 114 pages

English language

Published Jan. 23, 2011 by Minor Compositions.

ISBN:
978-1-57027-243-1
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OCLC Number:
953184183

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Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so, capitalism will no longer exist: for the simple reason that it’s impossible to maintain an engine of perpetual growth forever on a finite planet. Yet faced with this prospect, the knee-jerk reaction is often to cling to what exists because they simply can’t imagine an alternative that wouldn’t be even more oppressive and destructive. The political imagination seems to have reached an impasse. Or has it?

In this collection of essays David Graeber explores a wide-ranging set of topics including political strategy, global trade, debt, imagination, violence, aesthetics, alienation, and creativity. Written in the wake of the anti-globalization movement and the rise of the war on terror, these essays survey the political landscape for signs of …

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Una serie de enesayos muy dispersos

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Una colección de ensayos sobre la vieja noción de revolución y la incapacidad de la izquierda de imaginar una alternativa al capitalismo. Los ensayos están muy revueltos entre sí, son muy diferentes. Algunos están demasiado desorganizados y no profundizan mucho en algo en concreto. Hay algunas ideas interesantes sobre las relaciones sociales, la imaginación, etc. Pero creo que en general se quedan muy cortos para ofrecer alguna idea que no se haya dicho ya hasta el cansancio.