Hervé Kempf, How the Rich are Destroying the Earth

[kaloup75]

Sorry foru you, Mr Kempf, but you're wrong about marxism.

marxism is not sovietism. it's not the same thing. And if you are a real marxist, you can't be for USSR.

marx speaks about power to the people and not power against the people. marx speaks about freedom and not the russian system.

I'm marxist and i don't like USSR...

[punisa]

thank you ! Good that someone clarified the facts : ) Some praise Hervé Kempf as a great author, but its kind amateur that he is not aware of the Marxist theory, especially when he mentions being a leftist in college, guess he was yet another poser :P

[whizkidE14]

@kaloup75 the soviet union was built upon marxist ideas, it went horribly wrong. Now if your going to conduct a painful revolution you better be sure that the system is going to work....im not saying marxist ideas are incorrect but how can we know if is correct

[annadibath]

I have not read the book, yet, but I have just ordered a cheap second-hand copy via Amazon UK, but in my opinion the question is not whether Kempf's analysis of the global disaster we inhabit is correct, but whether anything at all can be done about it. Overconsumption of the world resources by the developed "first" world is a fact - and that includes me - but who or what is going to convince us collectively to change before it's too late? Is it not already too late?

[japonfushigi]

As a side note : I didn't read his book. I just hope he doesn't put everyone in the same basket.

[SkeyeZ]

Read the book, just 105 pages not counting the reference notes....which there are plenty of.

If you take a deep look into the interrelatedness of commercial consumption you may not feel that Gates and Jobs(computers in general) are necessarily 'great'. Believe me, I see the irony in this: we are communicating via the computer, but at what cost? If we didn't have such the mass production of these 'things'(computers, cars, etc.) we would not be needing to be communicating about this issue.

[japonfushigi]

Okay... I just have a little problem with that. How does people like Bill Gates, Steve jobs and all the great minds, like the people at Tesla Motors, are destroying the earth?

Of course there is some greedy fucks out there, that doesn't mean that all the riches are destroyers. Some have great minds and contribute tremendously to the quality of our lives.

The simple life is good. Giving away my earnings for "the common good" is not. Socialism creates moochers and parasites.

[mikaelavuorio]

Indeed, "the humanity is meeting the limits of the biosphere now" as Hervé Kempf puts it ultimately well here. And it is now we should act strongly and united as a civilization so that the future generations and other species will survive in a fair, human and sustainable way. We need a lot of changes both in action and attitudes and as individuals, societies and as a whole civilization. The future is made today.

[davidlaurent7]

very interesting book, maybe it's time to us to wake up !

[ClintonBooks]

This book is absolutely worth reading...