Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2025-12-20
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 213
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. - The Tech Fascist Takeover of the Media - Strikes, Walkouts, and Union Busting At Nestlé's Blue Bottle - Grenada with Andrew, Pt.
Mia Wong recommended The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber. James Stout recommended Beyond a Boundary by C. L. R. James. Andrew Sage discussed The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James and Facing Reality by C. L. R. James and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Utopia of Rules
The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber explores the pervasive nature of bureaucracy, corporate management, and the deep relationship between power, eloquence, and structural violence.
Recommended“The thing it reminds me of is the the anthropologist David Greyber wrote quoting someone else but I can't remember who he was quoting but he writes about how the relationship between sort of eloquence and violence where the less you have this this is in somewhere in the utopia of rules he writes about how you know people who”
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Beyond a Boundary
Beyond a Boundary by C.
Recommended“CLI James's book, trying to remember if it's called Beyond A Boundary or Beyond D Boundary. Beyond the boundary. Yeah, it's a great book. It's the only book about cricket that I've ever read. And that's the only one that I've ever enjoyed.”
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The Black Jacobins
The Black Jacobins by C.L.R.
Discussed“particularly after reading the black yakabins yeah sign that one a lot and I would say that the Caribbean left at the time also had a bit of a soft spot for him because they were heavily influenced by his writings.”
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Facing Reality
Discussed“You know, in his 1956 pamphlet, Facing Reality, which was about the Hungarian revolution, ended up becoming a profound influence on West Indian radicals as it had revealed the potential of workers councils and done a lot to expose the authoritarianism of the Soviet model.”
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