A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse

David Graeber [from The Baffler No. 22, 2013] What is a revolution? We used to think we knew. At moments like this, it generally pays to go back to the history one already knows and ask: Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be? Already by the time of the French Revolution, Wallerstein notes, there was a single world market, and increasingly a single world political system as well, dominated by the huge colonial empires. A quarter of the American population is now engaged in “guard labor”—defending property, supervising work, or otherwise keeping their fellow Americans in line. Revolutions are thus planetary phenomena. Until 1968, most world revolutions really just introduced practical refinements: an expanded franchise, universal primary education, the welfare state. It’s fashionable nowadays to view the social movements of the late sixties as an embarrassing failure. The ironies are endless. Future Stop I’ll take an obvious example. It would explain a lot.

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