Against the Megamachine: Essays on Empire and Its EnemiesThe green world in which we evolved is being shredded by our instruments and our way of life. David Watson’s wide-ranging essays—published in Fifth Estate, one of North America’s most original radical journals—ponder such themes as the state, empire and war; humanity’s tragic relation to the natural world; and the contemporary mass society generated by industrial capitalism and modern technology. His impassioned critique offers a vision of social transformation open to diverse possibilities, and suggests where a new politics must begin: as a radical challenge to the mystique of progress, in defense of nature, memory and spirit. |
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Introduction by Richard Drinnon | 1 |
We All Live in Bhopal | 25 |
Against the Megamachine | 83 |
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