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Anthropologist, anarchist academic, and CIA agent James C. Scott died last Friday. (en.wikipedia.org)

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Upon graduation, Scott received a Rotary International Fellowship to study in Burma, where he was recruited by an American student activist who had become an anti-communist organizer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Scott agreed to do reporting for the agency, and at the end of his fellowship, took a post in the Paris office of the National Student Association, which accepted CIA money and direction in working against communist-controlled global student movements over the next few years.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

surprised-pika-messed-up another anticommunist is a CIA shill?

I did enjoy Weapons of the Weak and Seeing Like a State though. Good books even if the latter is very heavy with its anarchism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I read The Art of Not Being Governed in college and enjoyed it, but found it's connections with anarchism tenuous at best. Really it's just a good ethnography about how people living in isolated mountain regions try and avoid government interference through culture and economics. Which is interesting but I would point out is something that can be used for good or ill. There's a reason both communist guerrillas AND weirdo cults seek out the hills.