The Democracy Project (Deep Dive)

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This episode explores The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement by David Graeber, an analysis of what democracy has become — and what it was never meant to be — in modern American political life.

Rather than treating democracy as a fixed institutional arrangement, the book examines it as a lived practice shaped by power, debt, and participation. Graeber argues that many systems labeled “democratic” are designed to manage public consent rather than enable collective decision-making, producing widespread frustration and disengagement.

Using the Occupy Wall Street movement as both a historical case study and a theoretical lens, the book explores how direct democracy, consensus, and horizontal organizing re-emerge whenever formal institutions lose legitimacy.

This episode approaches The Democracy Project as a systems problem — examining how governance structures channel participation without power, and why democratic imagination repeatedly resurfaces outside official channels.

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