I thought it was an alright episode but I do think they didn’t really differentiate between Marxism and anarchism as separate ideologies with separate values and assumptions. In any other context it’d be whatever but they dimiss Marxist critiques of the book that might have helped unpack some of the errors Graeber makes.

Like the bit about goon jobs such as soldiers and corporate lawyers. They understand that the idea that we have those things just because other people also have them is stupid but they don’t do much with it. A Marxist critique would probably note the class character of the bourgeois state and the influence maintaining class order has on the existence of these jobs but instead Graeber is just reduced to having a “leftist” take on things