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|  | Author: The Invisible Committee
Publisher: Semiotext(e)
Category: Book
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Rating:  63 reviews
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Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 136
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 1584350806
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
EAN: 9781584350804
ASIN: 1584350806
Publication Date: August 31, 2009
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 Disturbing philosophy book/how to book May 9, 2010
gregZ (Wildomar, CA)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Short, concise and to the disturbing realistic future that may be at our doorstep if we fail to act immediately. That was an opinion, not an endorsement of the ideas presented in this book.
 Insurrection...? Please. Try Overindulgent. May 7, 2010
Cockeyed Optimist (San Francisco, CA USA)
11 out of 17 found this review helpful
Vacuous Verbosity should be the title of this offering. If I were as cynical as these people I would slit my bourgeois throat before they got a chance to. My only regret in having purchased this poison is that it may support their madness in some way.
 The Coming of the Naive, Insane, Childish Revolution April 27, 2010
Cato (NC USA)
32 out of 49 found this review helpful
French communists have never really been appealing to my sensibilities. However, the Coming Insurrection opens a window to the despair and corruption of the human condition harnessed by life in a socialists state. Appealing to the worst instincts of enlightenment, personal respomnsibility and the virtue of merit, the authors of this tome can only appeal to a corrupt juvinile mind. Thinking they build their case step-by-step, they take us to their world of childish whining and fantasy. Most people leave this world behind before they gradute to the real world of hard work, building their character and reputation as a person of integrity that people admire and their future children justly proud. The authors take the path more-or-less taken in todays standard, sustaining their childish notion of every person must be equal without needing to have equal responsiblity to the society which they helped create but nopw heap abuse. The future world depicted does not serve as a constructive example of global problem solving. Instead, the future-world depicted is created solely to satisfy their egos by finding fault without offering realistic solutions. Everyone in their world is equal. They are all equally depraved and lazy, stealing and appropriating for their wherewithall, formenting anarchy in their own contemptible leisurely timetable. Very French . . . very European!
This book could have been ghostwritten for Hugo Chavez. In his (and the author's# world, society should rack up accomplishment on top of accomplishment and compound success and opportunity until a decision is made that the sweat of the toil of humanity is now yours. Sadly, it is not rightly theirs. An interesting window into the world of the mordant thoughts of lazy, juvenile, dillusional French Communists. I cannot really take the words of the authors seriously. They #the authors)appear to be too lazy to actually take their insane plans to actual action against those they percieve as being their oppressors. Not as eloquent as "Mein Kamph" nor as substantive as "The Communist Manifesto". The "Committee" show themselves to be idiots in the first degree.
I recommend this short paperback (love it) as a window into how a nation of liberty can devolve into a sytemic terror if we do not begin to recognize the obvious threats crazy people like these French Communists and the American Communialists (read "regime") pose.
Why all the bad reviews? April 14, 2010
Barry Floyd (New Jersey, USA)
10 out of 17 found this review helpful
Based on the comments of those who don't like this book, others could rightly proclaim that the book hits the nail on the head!
The time is coming.. sooner than you think.
 Cowardly Rebels without a Cause ... April 13, 2010
DACHokie (Blacksburg, VA)
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
The best thing about the book is that it is brief and somewhat entertaining. The worst thing about the book is that there will inevitably be a handful (or more) that will worship every word of every disorganized chapter ... an follow through with its instruction.
Essentially, this is a call to anarchy by who? A group of disgruntled STUDENTS so distraught with the way of the world that they feel the need to convince others (of lesser "intellect") to sacrifice themselves for the will of a few. The defining question that is never truly answered is: what credentials do the "brains" behind the "coming insurrection" have that give them the ultimate (moral) authority to determine the future of millions?
The book is "organized" into chapters, called "circles" (for some apparent reason) that attempt to explain (convince?) the reader that the current world is unacceptable and must be changed to suit the beliefs of the authors (who are currently jailed in France). The final quarter of the book is dedicated to instructing the mindless minions who fall for the authors' pleas on how to organize and implement the "insurrection" that will enable change. The book is heavy on emotion and lacking in credibility. A recurring theme throughout the book is an utter disdain for work/jobs ... but why? Is it a perceived lack of a viable economic future for these authors? After all, what do college students truly know about working for a living to take such a negative viewpoint? Sure, they attempt to support their cause by cherry-picking historical events throughout, but I find some of their references dubious (the "white supremacist lynch-mobs roaming the streets" of post-Katrina New Orleans). The reference of the Masquis during the German occupation in World War II was also questionable ... mainly because the death toll from German repraisals were never even mentioned. Nothing like recruiting soldiers for the cause without informing them of the potentially catastrophic/deadly consequences.
Throughout the book, I wondered whether the authors were truly serious or just pining to re-create oft-glamorized events from the past ... like the radical 60s in the US. Then I wondered what type of individual(s) would actually take the bait the authors are presenting. By the end of the book, I felt that I had both of these questions answered. First, I believe the book is an emotional cocktail of fantasy and frustration ... with a serious intent. Second, I truly believe that those likely to follow the books instruction are younger, naive, misinformed, with little life-experience and no direction ... in other words, those destined to be followers. The same types that fill the ranks of most cults and radical groups.
We've seen this before. As a matter of fact, there are groups like this all over the world ... but not all of them write books. In the end, I believe it important to take the contents of this book serious enough to be aware that such groups do exist, can be dangerous and are attempting to galvanize strength. But I also take comfort in believing that the majority of people are smart enough not to follow the instructions of a few disgruntled people that protect themselves behind the cowardly cloak of anonymity.
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