Steve Diamond: the problem with Graeber is not his factual grasp of Silicon Valley history it is his absurd fantasy about that history. Of course the question for deLong is his absurd fantasy about Obama - does he think Graeber is more dangerous or less dangerous than a President willing to shred the federal securities laws (as in the new JOBS Act) to dial for dollars among the Valley elite?
-------- Graeber has already contributed greatly to the left by his role in launching OWS. Considering the response of many leftists to OWS (at least in the beginning) it might have taken an anarchist nurturing absurd fantasies to get OWS going. Hence I am, to an extent, biased in his favor. But I agree that moonbeam gathering about the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs may mark some limit to his political thinking. Those engineers gathered about with their laptops are all hoping to become the pricks of the next generation who can sweat Chinese labor to produce riches for them. They may be nice, but they are either irrelevant or the enemy. Carrol P.S. The measure of de Long's political commentary was marked by his slimy posts on the death of Paul Sweezy. I have had nothing but contempt for him since then. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
