The recession through literature:
Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (swivel-eyed hate literature for the more mentalist sections of the ruling class)
Vince Cable's Booky Wook (pointless and point-missing 'neutral' analysis of a crisis that makes us all partisans).
What the fuck? Is this really the best choice that Newsnight wants to present us with?
Here's a few alternatives:
The Great Crash, 1929 - JK Galbraith
The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx - Alex Callinicos
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels
Armed Madhouse - Greg Palast
The Fountain at the Centre of the World - Robert Newman
A People's History of the World - Chris Harman
Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
And if you must indulge in swivel-eyed cult leaders with a Messiah complex, try this one...
Matthew 19:16-28
Mark 6:24
Maybe someone reads this and would like to put a few recommendations of their own? What would you recommend to help get a grip on this blasted crisis?
2 comments:
Gramsci - not to get a grip on the economics, but on the recent blatant moves to give UK police absolute free rein in stamping on the dissent which inevitably arises.
Thanks Elinor, anything in particular? The only thing on Gramsci I've got is one of those little Rebel Guides...
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