The Leaderless Revolution
How Ordinary People will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century
- 272 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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The Leaderless Revolution
How Ordinary People will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century
About this book
There are few books that attempt to interpret the world and how it is run.The Leaderless Revolution offers a refreshing and potent contrast to the Panglossian optimism of Tom Friedman's The World is Flatbut, like that book, it offers a way of understanding the world of the 21stcentury that is both clear and easily comprehensible. Carne Ross takes different angles on contemporary issues - economics, politics, the state of democracy, the environment and terrorism - wrapping them into a unified explanation of how money and power function to control the lives of the earth's inhabitants, such that they feel powerless to affect their collective future. It seems that mankind has settled upon liberal democracy as the ideal form of government. Its triumph with the collapse of communism signalled the end of ideological struggle and thus of history. The Leaderless Revolutionwill show however that even in democracies, many if not most of the population feel that they are excluded from any agency over the issues that most trouble them, while governments appear less and less able to influence the global problems that threaten our peace and comforts. Mining the rich but little-examined histories of both cosmopolitanism and anarchism, The Leaderless Revolutionshows how both ideas, in combination, are relevant and necessary for the problems of today. Not only an antidote to our global crises; Carne Ross offers, moreover, a route to fulfillment and self-realisation.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Epigraph page
- Contents
- Introduction: The Sheer Cliff Face
- 1. The Mexican Wave and the Suicide Bomber
- 2. The Pact
- 3. Anarchy=Chaos
- 4. The Importance of Meeting People
- 5. The Man in the White Coat
- 6. Why chess is an inappropriate metaphor for international relations, why Jackson Pollock paintings are a better, but still inadequate, metaphor, and why this has profound political consequences
- 7. The Means Are the Ends
- 8. Kill the King! Nine Principles for Action
- 9. Conclusion: Vision of the Human
- Acknowledgements
- Endnotes
- Index