All I can say is: buy it. Buy it today. Or sooner, if you have a time-machine.
By page 45 you will have discovered the solution to our problems. As ever, to get where we are going, we need to plan the route. If you lot bought the book you could help me iron out the kinks.
Salvation lies within, but if I announce it here, I would be stealing AT's thunder, and I will not do that.
Meanwhile, I am researching like a man possessed. I thought I was having fun before, from here on in it will be orgasmic. Join me. (But bring your own tummy-wipes).
CR.
PS-you can find details here on how to purchase both of his books.
I bought this book a while ago, following a plug from you, since then it's sat on my shelf - the reason; the text is soooo bloody small, I get a headache just looking at it.
ReplyDeleteStill, I'll follow your lead & try again tonight, either with a box of aspirin or a microscope!
I hear you brother!
ReplyDeleteI have eyes like a young hawk but I find myself squinting a bit.
A bigger font would have been better.
CR.
Samll font = less paper. Very eco friendly!
ReplyDeleteAll I can say is: buy it. Buy it today.
ReplyDeleteWell, we can hardly borrow yours now that the pages are stuck together.
Dioclese, fuck 'em, they're only trees. Actually I think I'll put that on a tee shirt and keep it by the door in case Greenpeace call.
:)
ReplyDeleteSticky pages can easily be avoided with the assiduous use of Tummy Wipes For Big Boys. Available at all good stockists.
CR.
Soon Ranty will be writing [a write-up anyway].
ReplyDeleteI will happily provide a review but if it's anything like the last book, it will only take one word: Mindblowing.
ReplyDeleteCR.
its a great read, excellent illustrations as-well
ReplyDeleteLoads of fun! I'm reading The Origin of the Family, State etc by Fredrick Engels from the work of Marx a few years after his death - it has a few things from 1889 that are exactly the same today - clearly we or they haven't learned!
ReplyDeleteC D
Thanks Captain - copy ordered and a couple of bottles of Scruttock's Old Dirigible hauled up from the cellar and dusted off in prep. ;)
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ReplyDeleteI bought both of his books, and they are both very good indeed.
Mesc,
ReplyDeleteYeah, the drawings are good. There are lesson in them too !
CR.
CD,
ReplyDeleteI have heard of Engels but I have never read his stuff.
I'll have to look him up.
CR.
Caratacus,
ReplyDeleteScruttocks? Sounds dodgy. Never had that before.
I tried "Flash" (a sort of home made loopy juice) in Libya once. Went blind in one eye, briefly, and developed a game leg. Three days on and I was as right as rain.
CR.
Gareth,
ReplyDeleteThanks for that.
I haven't finished the second one yet, so no spoilers!!
CR.
There's a preview of the few of pages on the Amazon site....
ReplyDeleteLooks interesting - I've placed an order
CR
ReplyDeleteJust finished Engels and then bought my own copy which I'll lend you. I will write a few paras and then we can all see the bigger picture. They had it nailed 120 years ago - fuckin scary!
Stay safe
CD
Thanks CD.
ReplyDeleteThere were some very bright people around 120 years ago, weren't there? Wonder where they all fucked off to...
Looks like the London trip will be next week.
Be good,
CR.
Ranty,
ReplyDeleteLooking fwd to catching up, I'm around first 3 days. Anyway I promised a quick para to demonstrate the accuracy of the book - Engels “ (regarding Merchants) Now for the first time a class appears which, without in any way participating in production, captures the direction of production as a whole and economically subjugates the producers; which makes itself into an indispensable middleman between and two producers and exploits them both. Under the pretext that they save the producers the trouble and risk of exchange, extend the sale of their products to distant markets and are therefore the most useful class of the population, a class of parasites comes into being, true ‘caterpillars of the community’, who as a reward for their actually insignificant services, skim all the cream off production at home and abroad, rapidly amass enormous wealth and corresponding social influence, and for that reason receive under civilisation ever higher honours and ever greater control of producton, until at last they also bring forth a product of their own – the periodical trade crises.”
Ring a bell anyone?
F*ckin unbelievable clarity in some of his work. I'm impressed by much of his research and it goes on to money, barter, trade and the rise of the state.
A damn good read to be honest.
CD