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red_irma's review against another edition
4.0
I think the historical knowledge and the ideas in this book are amazing. I have no regret to spent enormous amount of time to read it. I 100% agree with the comments above regarding the structure of the text though. I felt like a great editor could help the situation, and make the content inside the chapters more structured. Anyway, highly recommended to anyone who is interested in understanding of whose interests states with its party system usually serve and how such unities as states have been appearing in the world, and how the world functioned before states happened to us :) Now, few people know that there is a possibility to live in a community with its politics and with no states and party politics. So enjoy your discoveries of different societies, have a great travel, and be prepared to suffer a bit :)
cebolla's review against another edition
2.0
One of my favorite books about Anarchy is "Anarchy Works," also by Peter Gelderloos. Whenever anyone asks me for a recommendation for introductory books about anarchism, it's still the first thing that comes to my mind. It covers a more-than-fair amount of sub-topics, but maintains its readability throughout. Although I think Gelderloos got a little repetitive and boring in all his books about non-violence, I was still looking forward to reading Worshiping Power.
It took me almost a month to read this 250 page book and even though I finished it less than a half an hour ago, I'd be hard pressed to find words if someone were to ask me for a summary or what I just put down. This density is one of my biggest complaints about anarchism--we want people to understand our belief systems instead of just believing what they see on TV, but most of the books are written in a way that only uber-educated people can grasp them.
Hopefully Gelderloos gets back to writing for the people instead of is fellow intellectuals.
It took me almost a month to read this 250 page book and even though I finished it less than a half an hour ago, I'd be hard pressed to find words if someone were to ask me for a summary or what I just put down. This density is one of my biggest complaints about anarchism--we want people to understand our belief systems instead of just believing what they see on TV, but most of the books are written in a way that only uber-educated people can grasp them.
Hopefully Gelderloos gets back to writing for the people instead of is fellow intellectuals.