- Paperback: 125 pages
- Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd; 1 edition (July 1 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0714509744
- ISBN-13: 978-0714509747
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.4 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 168 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #850,670 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A must-read!,
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This review is from: Tools for Conviviality (Paperback)
"Leftists operate as industrial elitists and only serves big business with their social programs that insure the subordination of an underclass of consumers to keep the capital and mythical progressivism on motion"?? What are you smoking?!! Actually, many Marxists revere both Illich and Fromm. We currently live in a world marred by global finance-capital impoverishing and destroying the well-being of millions for the mega-profits of a few, and industrial realities play a key role in the problem... as well as the solution: its time for workers to harness for themselves what they create and have created for their own benefit locally and internationally. I really don't think a proper reading of "Tools for Conviviality" condradicts this.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 45 of 47 people found the following review helpful
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This is undoubtedly a life-changing book.,
By Tod Abrahamson (todwith1d@hotmail.com - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tools for Conviviality (Hardcover)
I can't say enough about the importance of this book. In short, Illich makes the point that there is a way in which the so-called "Third World" countries can avoid industrialization, and move directly into the post-industrialist state that the developed world is headed. There is no doubt in my mind that we will look back on this man's work sometime in the near future and realize how amazingly right he is. It is really a shame that he does not have more of an influence than he does. Some of the points in this book are so right that they seem impossible to refute or even question. I really can't even put into words the influence that the book has had on me. It is something everyone should read, and it's short enough that it can be done in a matter of a few hours. Please feel free to e-mail me and tell me what you thought of it, or of other works by this genius as I am going to work on trying to popularize and spread his ideas.
14 of 32 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A must-read!,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tools for Conviviality (Paperback)
"Leftists operate as industrial elitists and only serves big business with their social programs that insure the subordination of an underclass of consumers to keep the capital and mythical progressivism on motion"?? What are you smoking?!! Actually, many Marxists revere both Illich and Fromm. We currently live in a world marred by global finance-capital impoverishing and destroying the well-being of millions for the mega-profits of a few, and industrial realities play a key role in the problem... as well as the solution: its time for workers to harness for themselves what they create and have created for their own benefit locally and internationally. I really don't think a proper reading of "Tools for Conviviality" condradicts this.
8 of 32 people found the following review helpful
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mind blowing.,
By "dbs11" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tools for Conviviality (Paperback)
This only fortifies my opinion that our leftists operate as industrial elitists and only serves big business with their social programs that insure the subordination of an underclass of consumers to keep the capital and mythical progressivism on motion.
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