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Tools for Conviviality Paperback – Jul 1 2000

by Ivan Illich (Author)

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Paperback: 125 pages
Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd; 1 edition (July 1 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0714509744
ISBN-13: 978-0714509747
Product Dimensions: 12.7 x 0.8 x 19 cm
Shipping Weight: 141 g
Average Customer Review: 1 customer review
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,569,461 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1511 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Theory
- #76263 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics
- #107241 in Books > Self-Help

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A must-read!

July 20, 2001

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"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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Fullondan

society is collapsing - this is a good treatise as to

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society is collapsing - this is a good treatise as to why

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Atari911

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Great book with interesting content.

BoldlyAsserted

Kernels of insight buried in piles of manure

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An interesting look back at 1970 utopian socialism. Many, if not most of the prescriptions are ridiculous, suggestions such as limiting all transportation to the speed of bicycles or setting maximum and minimum incomes very close.

The book does offer some healthy critiques of technology and its potential for dehumanization (not the language used in the book). Also some of the analysis of institutional structures like education, which is condemned as conditioning only for industrial production have some validity. Politics and even language are indicted as creating a society of consumers who are slaves to addiction or slaves to envy.

Offers a historical perspective on anti-progress arguments that still appear today, but today, the sharp teeth are covered by benign dentures.

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Corey Cole

Deprogramming oneself from the matrix

March 23, 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

Brilliant and concise treatise on the myth of progress and a helpful prescription for deprogramming oneself from the postmodern matrix of society. Found it for a dollar while in college in Waterloo，Ontario，at The Old Goat. A bargain at almost any price，though.

Joe Johnston

Who's got privilege? Not me!

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I think Illich was way ahead of his time. He shows that any program, or lack of program should be questioned: "Who benefits, who pays, who decides" He talks a lot about the ideas of Privilege and of Monopoly. Most of us are unaware of our own privilege, even when we are aware of that of others. Henry George in "Progress and Poverty" offers a solution to the economic aspects of privilege and monopoly.

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