tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post9141598725919198568..comments2011-11-06T13:44:30.295-05:00unemployed negativityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251742512967070290noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-71252271403588459972011-11-06T13:44:30.295-05:002011-11-06T13:44:30.295-05:00Addition 11/6/11.<br /><br />It is amusing to read the following sentence in the NYtimes: &quot;&quot;Mr. Graeber, whose most recent book is “Debt: The First 5,000 Years,” an examination of barter systems, is credited with suggesting that “we are the 99 percent” become the rallying cry for the movement.&quot;&quot; [Occupy Wall Street Protest Reaches a Crossroads by By CARA BUCKLEY and COLIN MOYNIHAN 11/4/11]. <br /><br />Yes, it could be called an examination, if by examination you mean a critique of the very idea of barter systems, and that money arose out of barter. However, I think that this is at best a willful misreading that presents Graeber as an advocate of barter society, after all, he is an anthropologist.unemployed negativityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251742512967070290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-58141980358721258352011-10-07T09:03:22.281-04:002011-10-07T09:03:22.281-04:00Yes, Graeber discusses the guilt debt connection from the Genealogy. He has a odd reading of it, however, seeing it as a kind of reductio ad absurdum of the basic bourgeois ideal that all debts have a price.unemployed negativityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01251742512967070290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31783628.post-76830058711242429572011-10-07T00:08:40.879-04:002011-10-07T00:08:40.879-04:00It seems like Nietzsche&#39;s history of debt in BGE (or GM?) is relevant here. I don&#39;t know if Graeber draws on it...Mark Purcellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01278349104268917709noreply@blogger.com