The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, and A Movement

by David Graeber,
The San Francisco Chronicle, April 28, 2013

"Creating a new, alternative civilization" in the teeth of opposition from political and economic elites with militarized police at their disposal is "a difficult business," David Graeber acknowledges. He ought to know. An anthropologist who teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London, Graeber also played a prominent role in the Global Justice Movement and Occupy Wall Street.