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A review by breeze
Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics in the Age of Crisis by George Monbiot
5.0
The left is often attacked for its tendency to be combative and oppositional in its very nature, well, if you think that then: read this book. Refreshingly optimistic and forward-facing politics book in which Monbiot brings about a vision for a fairer and more just world. It seems ever so increasingly attractive to succumb to the nihilist view of national and global politics and so the necessity of these types of works, such as Monbiot's, is plainly obvious. Monbiot draws on works such as Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics and Becky Bond's & Zack Exley's Rules for Revolutionaries, amongst others, to provide an alternative story to the currently prevalent neoliberal one. Drawing on themes of how the neoliberal world brings about alienation and destroys senses of belonging and also how the economy is destroying both people and planet, the book meanwhile offers concrete alternative visions.
The most revelatory section of the book, for me, was definitely the economic vision it offered, whereby the usual dichotomy of state and market is extended into a model including both state and market but also "household" and "commons". The new model also includes energy, the Earth, and society as over-bearers of the economy itself.
The most revelatory section of the book, for me, was definitely the economic vision it offered, whereby the usual dichotomy of state and market is extended into a model including both state and market but also "household" and "commons". The new model also includes energy, the Earth, and society as over-bearers of the economy itself.