Two Hundred Pharaohs, Five Billion Slaves - Couverture souple

Peacock, Adrian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 184166071X ISBN 13 : 9781841660714

Editeur : ellipsis London Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

A wake-up call for world revolution and an end to billions of people working to serve the interests of roughly 200 billionaire Nothing less than a Communist Manifesto for the twenty-first century, this thoroughly researched underground classic was first published in 1999 and has been heavily plagiarised by would-be youth-movement leaders ever since. Predating the wave of corporately contrived 'anti-globalisation' books cobbled together to exploit the growing disquiet at the megawealth of today's global rich, it offers a more profoundly hopeful view of human progress than any of them. Taking off from the point at which the Situationist International of the 1960s left off, Two Hundred Pharaohs, Five Billion Slaves examines the rise of the international bourgeoisie and the creation of their world of intense leisure shopping. Starting from thesis that the whole of capitalist society can be viewed as nothing more sophisticated than a vast, unstable network of constantly rising and tumbling pyramid schemes, it highlights the fact that only a handful of socially isolated and insecure billionaires (the 'pharaohs' of its title) can hope to benefit from a system that squanders the immense potential of modern technology. The strength of this work is derived from its exposition of how this system alters our build environment and determines the very fabric of our daily lives. Avowedly 'post-utopian' in outlook Two Hundred Pharaohs comprises one of the very few attempts in literature to describe what daily life would be like in a communisti

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ellipsis London Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 184166071X
• ISBN 13: 9781841660714
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible