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7ee6daa7 | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 Review: The Dawn of Everything
After reading a few Marxist criticisms of Graeber and Wengrow's book, I decided to take a look because if something displeases a Marxist, it will surely make me laugh.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/09/16/review-the-dawn-of-everything/
#Anthropology #BookReview #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow

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7cb9c348 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @636cb8f3 

You might be interested in my own immediate reaction to #TheDawnOfEverything: https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox/109916064374143676

Incidentally, I'm neither a 'marxist' nor an 'anarchist' - just a working-class left-leaning man that takes what insights I can from all the great traditions of left thought - and I think you'll find most left-leaning people find this ongoing squabble in the left family a bit silly - leading, in this instance to a 'review' that spends more time trying to charicature a 'marxist' straw man than on the book it's supposed to be reviewing.  Not to mention, in the process, getting dangerously close to an anti-intellectualism we'd normally associate with the extreme right.