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A review by nauminous
The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber
5.0
A reflective look at the concept of *democracy*, interspersed with after-action-report tidbits of the *Occupy* experience from one of the organizer-participants (hesitant to use the term "leader", as the entire text serves up a discourse on establishing group consensus, what we talk about when we talk about democracy, not necessarily coinciding with majority vote).
There are quips in this that are shockingly of adolescent grade, but still, this is a remarkable read -- a grappling aloud of what democracy looked like to people in historic times, what it means in the 21st century, how it played out in the Occupy movement, what it could look like in a positive future. But there are no formulas proffered, no pitch jingled, no sloganeering -- just contemplation of *democracy*.
There are quips in this that are shockingly of adolescent grade, but still, this is a remarkable read -- a grappling aloud of what democracy looked like to people in historic times, what it means in the 21st century, how it played out in the Occupy movement, what it could look like in a positive future. But there are no formulas proffered, no pitch jingled, no sloganeering -- just contemplation of *democracy*.