Danny Katch
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Very short but succinct. The title is misleading. It should be: anarcho-communism (despite the author's protests). Please oppress these people more - seems there's nothing they enjoy more.
Not sure why I expected a discussion of economic models but what I got was liberal whinging about issues that have nothing to do with either the political or economic problems but strictly cultural. Well, if all you want is cultural change I don't see why you have to bring socialism into it.
Not sure why I expected a discussion of economic models but what I got was liberal whinging about issues that have nothing to do with either the political or economic problems but strictly cultural. Well, if all you want is cultural change I don't see why you have to bring socialism into it.
I'm not a socialist, but I am curious about other belief systems. This is a really good introduction to socialism as an ideology. Socialism is a word with no well-defined definition, this author uses it to mean "fighting for equality and the end of capitalism's tenure as the dominant economic theory". I did learn a lot about socialist theory, and would recommend this book to anyone looking to learn.
Quick and witty foray into our present moment. I don't agree with all of Katch's conclusions, but he does make a solid case for an alternative future.
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My Review: I'm decidedly a leftist in my political stances. I would never, ever, ever vote for 45...not even for his execution.
I'm in sympathy with this book, then. Why would I only give it three-and-a-half stars? Because it's a humorous look at how the oligarchy got to control the political landscape...Obama would've been a Rockefeller Republican in the rational politics of my youth...that's short on ideas for what to do to replace the consensus.
Taking shit away from people is satisfying on a personal, vengeful level..."look! LOOK what your gullibility and stupidity have cost actual, real human beings!"...but look to the Soviet revolution for what happens when all you do is take away things with no plan for what to replace them with. Stalin. Putin. All the awful abusive cruelties and murderous outrages those men got away with by stepping into a void and saying, "obey me and I will protect you."
We got 45. And deserved him. The issue I take with this book isn't that it's wrong, it's that it's naïve and almost willfully unrealistic about what it will take to change the course of modern politics.
Explaining the problem ain't anything like enough anymore. The entrenched scream machine bellowing idiotic ideas into otherwise thoughtless heads isn't going to crank down on its own. It needs to be made unprofitable. And it needs to have a palatable-to-decent-people alternative to shove Them towards or it will fail and that catastrophe is what we're living through.
Real change for the better, please. No more cleverly insulting analyses, please.… (mer)