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David vs. Washington

2021-01-25T23:46:30.442Z


The possibility of democracy awakening in the United States seems to terrify its elites. And these increasingly distance themselves not only from the American people but also from the "founding fathers" of the country.


US flags installed in front of the Capitol before Biden's inauguration.JUSTIN LANE / EFE

If the assault on the Washington Capitol last January 6 (and its paraphernalia of flags and clothing) has brought to mind scenes of the liberal revolutions of more than two centuries ago, it made me think of a much more recent.

The episode that David Graeber recounted in the first pages of his

The Democracy Project was

fresh in his memory

, and which is not that of any American revolutionary of the late 18th century, but rather of his own reaction in the spring of 2012 when a comrade of the Occupy Wall Street movement offers you a megaphone to ...

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