On balance I liked the book. Strong compelling arguments, well evidenced, got me in. But, a couple of flaws in the logic I reckon:
There seemed a bit of a tendency to play the man and not the ball. JWH certainly makes a convincing chief villain, but Australian politics has long been too cosy a duopoly and I'm sure it's fair to say that Labour are more than slightly complicit in trashing our democracy. I thought the stream of 'neo-liberal' bashing through the book was a bit mindless, and detracted from the main argument. It confused so-called economic agendas with social and political agendas to my mind, and ignored that the most public failings of the capitalist system in recent years have been human failures - venality of the pocket-lining variety exactly as was rife in socialist regimes of prior decades.
I put the book down after finishing it and thought to myself, 'will this change the world', or is it another introspective effort by the elites, for the elites? I suspect the latter unfortunately.
Recent comments
41 min 55 sec ago
58 min 57 sec ago
2 hours 22 min ago
2 hours 52 min ago
3 hours 50 min ago
7 hours 17 min ago
8 hours 8 min ago
8 hours 14 min ago
9 hours 23 min ago
11 hours 58 min ago