Revolution In Reverse

REVOLUTION IN REVERSE

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2007graeber-revolution-reverse

by David Graeber

“All power to the imagination.” “Be realistic, demand the impossible…” Anyone involved in radical politics has heard these expressions a thousand times. Usually they charm and excite the first time one encounters them, then eventually become so familiar as to seem hackneyed, or just disappear into the ambient background noise of radical life. Rarely if ever are they the object of serious theoretical reflection.