David Graeber (anthropoligst from Yale) on anarchy

[Xtort]

Found this interesting, worth watching if you haven't seen it.  He starts off with saying that anthropologists don't scoff at the idea of anarchy working because they see it all the time.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anSXsaJD8fk

[weeb]

Interesting, I'll have to check this guy out.  It was disappointing that he didn't mention the non-aggression principle when asked to explain anarchy.

[Xtort]

I think he's a left wing anarchist.  Which is my way of saying he may be a raging hypocrite, but he nails it here.

 

Edit:

 

When I say he nails it, I mean in making a case for anarchy.  I whip this out often when people give that 'when has there ever been an anarchy' line, especially when they use that hobbesian BS about how people will go mad max if there's no government to provide courts and law.  People that want evidence and an authoritative source....this is a Yale professor with years of research in the field of human behavior.

[LovePrevails]

Interesting, I'll have to check this guy out.  It was disappointing that he didn't mention the non-aggression principle when asked to explain anarchy.

 

the NAP is not a principle in classic anarchism, it is imported into certain schools such as our own via libertarianism

[dsayers]

Self-ownership is the root of both property rights (NAP) and anarchism. Anarchy is a description of a world where it is understood that aggressing against others is immoral.

[Xtort]

I just realized how badly I butchered 'anthropologist' in the title...