Exile, World Systems Analysis and Anarchism with Andrej Grubačić

Andrej Grubačić is a former teacher at the University of Rojava, founding Chair of Anthropology and Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies, author of books such as Don’t Mourn, Balkanize!, co-authored Wobblies and Zapatistas with Staughton Lynd and most recently the co-author of Living At The Edges of Capitalism: Adventures In Exile and Mutual Aid with Dennis O’Hearn. Andrej is also the editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research as well as the Kairos imprint at PM Press. For the hour we speak about anarchism, the Yugoslav experiment, exile, World-Systems Analysis, Rojava, his friend David Graeber and other topics.

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A couple of Grubačić pieces referenced, found online:

• Anarchism, Or The Revolutionary Movement of the Twenty-First Century (Graeber & Grubačić)
• Don’t Mourn, Balkanize! is on The Anarchist Library as a PDF

Some further reading suggestions include (more references in upcoming transcript):

• Daniel Guérin (French, Gay, Libertarian socialist):
• Balkan Federalism on wikipedia
• The Living Theatre anarchistic theater group out of NYC
• (Movement of the Free Spirit by Raoul Vaneigem, out of print but still on AK Press website)
• The Age of Globalization (pdf) by Benedict Anderson, the updated edition of Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination. Published by Verso, but seems out of print
• Sho Konishi, Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan
• Ilham Khuri-Makdisi, The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914
• Marx’s correspondence with Vera Zasulich shows his development towards Libertarianism near the end of his life: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/zasulich/index.htm
• Jason W. Moore (Capitalist World Ecology proposition): ECOLOGY, CAPITAL, AND THE NATURE OF OUR TIMES: ACCUMULATION & CRISIS IN THE CAPITALIST WORLD-ECOLOGY

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