Sandra reviewed Historie-boken
Sixteen years later
4 stars
This is a book from 1970 that was reprinted in a facsimile edition thirty-nine years later in 2009 and now it's been another sixteen years since then.
It was meant to be hope-inspiring I guess but it's a really frank and ruthless look at class (and racist) exploitation throughout human history starting with the dawn of mercantilism throughout the triangle trade and industrial era into the 1960s. They promote violent revolution and worker uprising; they fully criticize Soviet and Stalin but attribute its misteps to "okay that one failed we won't make the same mistakes next time". That's just a tiny part of the book; the main gist of the book is showing how systemic injustices and capitalism work. As per ushe from us on the left: the only ones who have a full understanding of the problem but not much in they way of solutions.
The few pages the …
This is a book from 1970 that was reprinted in a facsimile edition thirty-nine years later in 2009 and now it's been another sixteen years since then.
It was meant to be hope-inspiring I guess but it's a really frank and ruthless look at class (and racist) exploitation throughout human history starting with the dawn of mercantilism throughout the triangle trade and industrial era into the 1960s. They promote violent revolution and worker uprising; they fully criticize Soviet and Stalin but attribute its misteps to "okay that one failed we won't make the same mistakes next time". That's just a tiny part of the book; the main gist of the book is showing how systemic injustices and capitalism work. As per ushe from us on the left: the only ones who have a full understanding of the problem but not much in they way of solutions.
The few pages the book spends on criticizing social democracy got it into a lot of trouble which I think was too bad; even us who advocate for social democracy needs to address its problems straight on and not only are those problems (corruption and collaborationism) on full display here, social democracy has betrayed the working class again and again in even bigger ways since 1970 like the lontagarfond rug pull or the selling out of public interest or the dismantling of labor rights.
So, okay. Great book if you wanna do step one, comprehend the systematic problems fully. How to fix it is left as an exercise to the reader.