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The Democracy Project is a work of nonfiction.Some names and identifying details have been changed.
Copyright © 2013 by David GraeberAll rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
SPIEGEL & GRAU and Design is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc.Grateful acknowledgment is made toThe Weekly Standard for permission to reprint an excerpt from “Anarchy in the U.S.A.: The Roots of American Disorder” by Matthew Continetti, The Weekly Standard, November 28, 2011. Reprinted by permission.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATAGraeber, David.The Democracy Project : a history, a crisis, a movement / David Graeber.p.    cm.Includes bibliographical references.eISBN: 978-0-679-64600-61. Democracy—History.   I. TitleJC421.G677 2013321.8—dc23        2012031998
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CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Introduction
1. The Beginning Is Near
2. Why Did It Work?
3. “The Mob Begin to Think and to Reason”: The Covert History of Democracy
4. How Change Happens
5. Breaking the Spell
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Notes
Other Books by This Author
About the Author
INTRODUCTION
On April 26, 2012, about thirty activists from Occupy Wall Street gathered on the steps of New York’s Federal Hall, across the street from the Stock Exchange.
For more than a month, we had been trying to reestablish a foothold in lower Manhattan to replace the camp we’d been evicted from six months earlier at Zuccotti Park. Even if we weren’t able to establish a new camp, we were hoping to at least find some place we could hold regular assemblies, and set up our library and kitchens. The great advantage of Zuccotti Park was that it was a place where anyone interested in what we were doing knew they could always come to find us, to learn about upcoming actions or just talk politics; now the lack of such a place was causing endless problems. The city authorities, however, had decided that we would never have another Zuccotti. Wherever we found a spot we could legally set up shop, they simply changed the laws and drove us off. When we tried to establish ourselves in Union Square, city authorities changed park regulations. When a band of occupiers started sleeping on the sidewalk on Wall Street itself, relying on a judicial decision that explicitly said citizens had a right to sleep on the street in New York as a form of political pr ............

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