A World to Win: Remembering David Graeber with Astra Taylor, Jerome Roos, and James Schneider
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🗓️ 9 September 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
A World to Win is a new podcast from Grace Blakeley and Tribune bringing you a weekly dose of socialist news, theory and action with guests from around the world. In this episode, Grace speaks to Astra Taylor, Jerome Roos and James Schneider about their memories of the brilliant anthropologist and activist David Graeber, who tragically died last week.
David Graeber was the author of many books, including Debt: The First 5,000 Years and Bullshit Jobs, and was also seminal in the early development of Occupy Wall Street.
Here, his legacy is discussed by filmmaker Astra Taylor, academic Jerome Roos, and former Corbyn staffer James Schneider, each of whom were influenced by his life and work.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this special episode of A World to Win, a podcast from Tribune magazine. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Grace Blakely and as always you can find us on social media at a World to Win pod on |
| 0:11.6 | Patreon at patreon.com slash a World to win pod on patreon at patreon dot com slash a world to win pod and across all |
| 0:15.6 | podcast platforms. Thank you for tuning into this special episode where we'll be discussing the |
| 0:20.8 | legacy of my friend the the academic, activist and anarchist legend David Graber, |
| 0:25.8 | who tragically died last week at the age of 59. |
| 0:29.2 | Today I'm going to be talking to three people who are close with David, both intellectually and personally. |
| 0:35.0 | Astra Taylor is an activist, musician, documentary filmmaker and founder of the Debt Collective. |
| 0:41.0 | The collective's forthcoming book Can't Pay Won't Pay is out this year with a |
| 0:45.1 | foreword from Astra. Jerome Roos is a fellow and international political economy at the |
| 0:50.0 | London School of Economics, founder of Raw magazine, and author of Why Not to Fault, the Politics of Sovereign |
| 0:56.0 | Debt. |
| 0:57.0 | James Schneider was Jeremy Corbyn's spokesperson and head of strategic communications, a co-founder of Momentum, and is now Progressive International's Communications Director. |
| 1:07.0 | Each of my guests has been profoundly influenced by David's thinking and by his friendship, |
| 1:11.0 | and we're privileged that they're sharing their memories of him with us today. |
| 1:15.0 | I also hope you enjoy the carefully selected clips of David speaking at various lectures and public meetings, |
| 1:20.0 | and I'd encourage you to watch the clips in full on YouTube after this |
| 1:23.8 | podcast. Rather than asking you to become a patron of a world to win this week, |
| 1:28.5 | we'd like to ask you to consider supporting David and his wife Nika's Patreon, which they set up to raise money for their new book series called Anthropology for All. |
| 1:37.0 | Nika is planning on using the money to set up a memorial foundation in David's name that can be used to pursue all the many projects |
| 1:44.4 | that he didn't quite have time to complete. |
| 1:46.4 | We'll post a link in the description. |
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