The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible CommitteeMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This book is a comprehensive critique of French society permeated as it is by the State. Every aspect of the culture is taken to task from formal institutions down to the family, and the current generation is filled with alienation, isolation, and desolation. Even the enfranchised are alienated. With this destruction of the soul comes the conviction that the only solution is the rise of collectivism via nihilistic destruction of society and the state.
As I thought about the valid criticisms made here, I could see very clearly that much of dysfunction was caused by the intrusion of the State into every aspect of life. So, while I can understand the reaction against commercialism and materialist culture, the state, and society, especially when you've been disenfranchised your whole life, it must be remembered that every time a collectivist revolution succeeds, it re-establishes the state in a more evil form.
For a revolutionary answer to the critique of French civilization (and by extension, Western civilization), it must bring individualistic personal liberty regulated by ethics. True individualism unhampered by the enslaving state results in freedom, and freedom is the answer to the mindless materialism of consumerism.
Perhaps unknown to the invisible committee (or the new universal collective), is that the abrogation of the individual and the rise of the collective is only another type of materialism. It asserts that the space-time construct of the current mass of human life is all that there is, and thus, happiness can only occur in the making of a utopia.
The only solution proposed by this book is only perpetual revolution.
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