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Bolo Bolo (Foreign Agents)

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P.M. creates an interesting utopian model in this book. He blends Marxist and Anarchist ideas to form a utopia that seems realistic and achievable. An enjoyable and inspiring read.

The shadowy Swiss activist p.m. has written a masterpiece. This book deserves to be far better known than it is-- a fantastic blueprint for a post-utopian world. Whereas most "green" theorists have a tendency to sink into mere liberal preaching, p.m. gives us a glimpse of a world that OUGHT to be. No tedious sermons on recycling, condom use, or literacy. Instead, the Magus of Zurich talks about a possible world of duels, sprouting micro-religions, bizarre local cuisines, the transformation of bland existing buildings into bohemian funhouses, dramatic suicides, wild barter economics, and Tarkovskyesque railway systems.

In the early '90s I belonged to a New Mexico household that attempted to implement some of the ideas of this book. Although the project failed miserably, individual pettiness was to blame rather than p.m.'s resplendent vision of a politics that would finally confront the irreducible reality of both beneficent and lethal objects.

This is a fun read. The ideas are very thoughtful and creative, and there could not be a more timely book for those of you on the calendar that suggests that the year 2000 is just around the corner. Young readers or those young-at-heart will find Bolo Bolo a possible path for the future.