Colin Danby

There were no juries, or even trials. He copped a plea in 2005 and died before he could be tried again.

Yes. The SocArXiv policy seems to get the balance right, with exploration allowed.

Baffled. It's the kind of thing that can happen if you run text through multiple machine translations, but how/why.

Authors teach at English-medium institutions so I doubt the abstract and other odd bits were their work.

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I'm also fond of some of the work in anthro e.g. Codere

I loke Braudel's econ history because you can see specific kinds of credit money in their contexts.

There's a general problem, which you will see in reading, in trying to pick "money" out of its larger contexts, including gov't, private finance, commerce.

Very much seconding Mehrling and Ingham, who are grounded in the relevant literatures and interested in historical cases.

Graeber, though as you can see in these replies popular, was unaware of heterodox writings and positioned himself against a cardboard version of orthodoxy.

What we know of foragers in centuries recent enough for ethnography is mixed. There are non-confrontational egalitarians, there were slave-holders on the NW coast of N. America. There were/are many kinds of gender and age patterns.

I fully endorse your ethical and political concerns!

I just caution that we know too little about ancient foragers to generalize, and should be wary of tacit assumptions they shared a social template, or of a priori economic determinist arguments about the nature of their societies.

Honored you summoned the energy to reply!

To be pedantic, foraging goes back as far as homo sapiens, i.e. 200,000-300,000 years, and if human means more broadly hominins, several millions. Re ancient foragers we know little, but I agree the idea there's a "hate instinct" is silly.

Maybe not the biggest issue but ... telepathy? And Deepak Chopra. And exploiting autistic children and their parents.

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Tag yourself! Going with "frighted."

The aggressive secularism/atheism/Laïcité line really bugs me, because not only is it bad social analysis, the sharp end of it is always pointed at non-Christians.

Thank you for being super-clear on these issues, and also for batting back the idea that "religion" as a whole is a problem.

It's a problem for any written answer, regardless of form.

We just need to block these people. Anyone making that pivot is beyond redemption.

Hope your reply works! I just blocked 'em.

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I love the last sentence. We may be socialists, but you're not gaming us to get a free Marx picture.

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"Service to the department."

I am not smoking the cigarette, the cigarette is smoking itself through me.

Pay attention, people.

Now, is he a deeply committed nazi, probably not. But he is at the least one of these red-brown "Hitler had some good ideas but went too far" red/brown left-bros.

Everyone can see what type of person ends up as a Platner apologist.

I cannot believe this is still going around. To recap from last Fall (a) this about *deciding on a tattoo* and getting the most viciously nazi image there is (b) there's evidence he knew it was a Totenkopf years ago.

Then, in *January*, he went on an antisemite's podcast.

I had a student a few years ago who wrote about this transition! I learned a lot. All best to Charlie and you.

This is so messed up. And the accusation gets flung in deeply unfair ways.