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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