''The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement'' is anthropologist
David Graeber
David Rolfe Graeber (; February 12, 1961 – September 2, 2020) was an American and British anthropologist, Left-wing politics, left-wing and anarchism, anarchist social and political activist. His influential work in Social anthropology, social ...
's 2013 book-length, inside account of the
Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a left-wing populist movement against economic inequality, capitalism, corporate greed, big finance, and the influence of money in politics that began in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Financial ...
movement. Graeber evaluates the beginning of the movement, the source of its efficacy, and the reason for its eventual demise. Interspersed is a history of democracy, both direct and indirect, throughout many different times and places. In contrast to many other evaluations of OWS Graeber takes a distinctly positive tone, advocating both for the value of OWS and its methods of
Direct democracy
Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the Election#Electorate, electorate directly decides on policy initiatives, without legislator, elected representatives as proxies, as opposed to the representative democracy m ...
. The book was published by
Spiegel & Grau.
Another book on Graeber's experiences with Occupy was published in German as ''Inside Occupy''.
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Interview on C-SPAN
2013 non-fiction books
Books about anarchism
English-language non-fiction books
Occupy Wall Street
American non-fiction books
Books about democracy
Books by David Graeber
Spiegel & Grau books
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