George Monbiot's reputation as a campaigning journalist and proponent of social justice makes The Age of Consent a fascinating prospect. And...
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Jan 15, 2009
Friedrich
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A couple of paragraphs into this book and my mind was reeling. I found myself repeatedly checking the cover details, amazed to be holding a Harper Collins imprint. It seems someone at least is still publishing some raw gritty writing. After all, it's not everyday you read something that consciously claims to be a manifesto.
Monbiot writes like he is holding a lecture, constructing a rambling discourse that leaps from subject to subject. Consequently it's very inspiring, and the first coupl More...
Monbiot writes like he is holding a lecture, constructing a rambling discourse that leaps from subject to subject. Consequently it's very inspiring, and the first coupl More...
Feb 10, 2012
Publicserviceradio
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Rather than being a book about teenage promiscuity, the subtitle of this book is “A Manifesto for a New World Order”. As with many books of this nature it begins by trying to shock the reader, claiming that “Marx was wrong”, and “Marx laid the blueprint for Stalinist tyranny in the Communist Manifesto”. Despite this the author then goes on to explain his own manifesto which confirms many of the things Marx spoke of, such as egalitarianism and the withering away of the nation state. However, this
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Nov 02, 2010
Milloum
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This is an amazing work. Really inspiring.
And that's because Monbiot is truly balanced and as objective as it comes: in his columns his frequently writes to acknowledge that he has been wrong in the past. But intelligent as he is, he also thinks with his heart. Brotherly love is his guide, and justice his objective.
Are his proposals realistic?
GM doesn't entertain crazy beliefs in the "good in man" as, say, anarchists do. power only has a chance of tolerating justic More...
And that's because Monbiot is truly balanced and as objective as it comes: in his columns his frequently writes to acknowledge that he has been wrong in the past. But intelligent as he is, he also thinks with his heart. Brotherly love is his guide, and justice his objective.
Are his proposals realistic?
GM doesn't entertain crazy beliefs in the "good in man" as, say, anarchists do. power only has a chance of tolerating justic More...
Nov 19, 2008
Huyen
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Does it make any sense that a massive country like India and a tiny Andorra have the same say in the UN? Does it make any sense that the US can overturn any IMF and WB proposal merely due to their financial contribution? Even a retarded pumpkin can say obviously not. Many have argued that the UN is an unreformable anachronistic organization that really has not done much good, or maybe was not supposed to serve a noble cause at all in the first place. The people who are most affected have the le
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Nov 11, 2010
Tank
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the first couple of chapters were bewilderingly facile and almost completely lacking in any form of rigorous analysis to the point that i almost put this book down. however, chapters 3 through 6 were much better and he presented some interesting ideas. so, as a collection of alternative ideas to the present world order, those chapters were of note and definitely worth a look.
i think, all in, he's done his legwork and has a lot of information to pass on, however the book is really let More...
i think, all in, he's done his legwork and has a lot of information to pass on, however the book is really let More...
Feb 10, 2012
Ian
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I like your Manifesto, I put it to the testo.
Starts off weak, with a summary of different political systems (of which there are only 3 apparently). This amounts to, socialism and anarchism don't work...what are we left with? Democracy. Right that'll have to do. Called me old fashioned but whatever happened to fascism? Anyway, it gets better. He rips into existing global systems such as WTO,IMF and especially the UN.He not only suggests what they could be replaced with but how this might come ab More...
Starts off weak, with a summary of different political systems (of which there are only 3 apparently). This amounts to, socialism and anarchism don't work...what are we left with? Democracy. Right that'll have to do. Called me old fashioned but whatever happened to fascism? Anyway, it gets better. He rips into existing global systems such as WTO,IMF and especially the UN.He not only suggests what they could be replaced with but how this might come ab More...
Oct 24, 2007
Barry
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Awful title, but this is an interesting look at how we might create a different kind of new-world-order. Better as food for thought than as a manifesto.
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