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elliotduprey 's review for:
Work: Capitalism. Economics. Resistance
by CrimethInc.
Wholly anti-capitalist, the book offers plenty of dissections of every aspect of our society and how its problems are inherently rooted in private property and our capitalist way of living.
It feels distinctly dated (early 2010s) and many of its larger calls to action or hopeful resolutions have already come to pass. The age of information and the attention economy were in the hands of businesses and capitalists and planned out far before anyone thought they could use it as a means of revolt.
Also it never quite gave a solution to all the bureaucratic benefits of our society - how would healthcare, travel, waste management, or anything difficult happen in a safe and more beneficial way than it does now without our regulations? It critiques without providing the counter.
A final quote, and a good one from Athens: “we weighed its joys and justices and found them all too little”. I wish there was more momentum. Transformation happens in contagion.
It feels distinctly dated (early 2010s) and many of its larger calls to action or hopeful resolutions have already come to pass. The age of information and the attention economy were in the hands of businesses and capitalists and planned out far before anyone thought they could use it as a means of revolt.
Also it never quite gave a solution to all the bureaucratic benefits of our society - how would healthcare, travel, waste management, or anything difficult happen in a safe and more beneficial way than it does now without our regulations? It critiques without providing the counter.
A final quote, and a good one from Athens: “we weighed its joys and justices and found them all too little”. I wish there was more momentum. Transformation happens in contagion.