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In arguably the most radical book published in decades, cartoonist/columnist Ted Rall has produced the book he was always meant to write: a new manifesto for an America heading toward economic and political collapse. While others mourn the damage to the postmodern American capitalist system created by the recent global economic collapse, Rall sees an opportunity. As millions of people lose their jobs and their homes, they and millions more are opening their minds to the possibility of creating a radically different form of government and economic infrastructure.
But there are dangers. As in Russia in 1991, criminals and right-wing extremists are best prepared to fill the power vacuum from a collapsing United States. The best way to stop them, Rall argues, is not collapse—but revolution. Not by other people, but by us. Not in the future, but now. While it's still possible.

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September 28, 2010
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5.01 x 0.75 x 6.98 inches
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1583229337
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Is Rall serious about launching a revolution to overthrow the government of the United States? The cartoonist describes the problems confronting America today as if they were the four horsemen of the apocalypse –wars, financial crises, unemployment, and oil (spills) – and revolution, even a violent one, is the only way. Rall acknowledges the chaos that typically ensues after the collapse or overthrow of an empire, saying that whatever follows will likely, for a time, be worse: "The Terror followed the French Revolution. Stalin's purges followed the Russian Revolution." When it comes to what follows, Rall, like many revolutionaries, has less to say: "We must take the chance." His revolutionary rants and belief in a green, egalitarian world are compelling, yet a stubborn truth remains: most Americans don't want to revolt, a fact about which Rall seems oblivious, making his Manifesto inadvertently ridiculous. While the cartoonist is right about much of what is wrong with America today, it's hard to take this seriously. For once, the joke's on him. Illustrations. (Sept.) (c)
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“This great book lays the foundation for the revolution we all know is necessary. This is the book we've all been waiting for. Pick this book up. Read it. And then get ready to fight back.” –Derrick Jensen

“Rall is a clever and entertaining writer … The Anti-American Manifesto stands as a polished polemic against the modern American warfare state and the liberals and leftists who protect it through their obstructionism … Essentially, Rall's 'manifesto' is a comprehensive and well-researched call for people to stand up and fight back.” –Press Action

“Whether as an author or award-winning syndicated editorial cartoonist and syndicated columnist and cartoonist, Rall has never hesitated to say what's on his mind. And his new book, The Anti-American Manifesto, actually does call for a revolution right here in the good old U S of A.” –Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Seven Stories Press; Illustrated edition (September 28, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1583229337
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1583229330
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.01 x 0.75 x 6.98 inches

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Ted Rall is a nationally syndicated political cartoonist, columnist, graphic novelist, editor, author and occasional war correspondent.

Twice the winner of the RFK Journalism Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Rall's important books include "Revenge of the Latchkey Kids," about the travails of Generation X, and "Silk Road to Ruin," a survey of ex-Soviet Central Asia. He traveled to Afghanistan during the fall 2001 U.S. invasion, where he drew and wrote "To Afghanistan and Back," the first book of any kind about the war. He was also one of the first journalists to declare the war effort doomed, writing in The Village Voice in December 2001 that the occupation had already been lost.

Rall's latest book is "The Book of Obama: How We Went From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt." His next book, "After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back As Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan," comes out in November 2013.

Inspired after meeting pop artist Keith Haring in a Manhattan subway station in 1986, Rall began posting his cartoons on New York City streets. He eventually picked up 12 small clients, including NY Weekly and a poetry review in Halifax, Nova Scotia, through self-syndication. In 1990, he returned to Columbia University to resume his studies, from which he graduated with a bachelor of arts with honors in history in 1991. (His honors thesis was about American plans to occupy France as an enemy power at the end of World War II.) Later that year, Rall's cartoons were signed for national syndication by San Francisco Chronicle Features, which is no longer in business. He moved to Universal Press Syndicate in 1996.

His cartoons now appear in more than 100 publications around the United States, including the Los Angeles Times, Tucson Weekly, the Harrisburg Patriot-News, Pasadena Weekly and MAD Magazine.

Rall considers himself a neo-traditionalist who uses a unique drawing style to revive the aggressive approach of Thomas Nast, who viewed editorial cartoons as a vehicle for change. His focus is on issues important to ordinary working people--he keeps a sign asking "What do actual people care about?" above his drafting table--such as un- and underemployment, the environment and popular culture, but also comments on political and social trends.

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Hodad

I know the truth...

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2017

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I know the truth when I see it and this book is full of exactly that. It's as 'they've' been saying for years now, America is on her way down, just as with the 'fall' of Great Britain and Rome and Greece and Egypt and..... It's all a matter of how we deal with it and the potential solutions may be a tad more than painful for a huge number of people. All I can say is I'm glad I'm where I am in my lifetime. Started the 70's last year so I won't have to suffer as much and for that I'm eternally grateful.

Enjoy the book.

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che handala

This book should be in every americans home

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2014

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No i have not read every word in this work yet but i am almost done with it and find it refreshing and very needed in this day and age in america. We are not free, and we are losing more and more rights during to our employees(politicians) acting like they are the parent and we are children and it should be the other way around. We have the right to abolish tyranny and we must do it soon.

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Redattheblackboard

Honest observations and an effective polemic.

Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2012

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If you are in the process of deciding weather or not you should buy this book I can give you some idea of what to expect. This book is not an academic treatise or analysis of the dynamics of the latest economic recession or American foreign policy; it is an polemic on the general state of affairs in America and how revolution is the only solution. If you want to read an extensively documented, academic text about how capitalism and the Anglo/American neo-liberal world order is exploiting us, destroying our economic prospects and our environment you can read some of the latest work by a distinguished anthropologist David Harvey (City University of New York). However, if you are already convinced that electoral politics is an elaborate theatrical performance and popularity contest, if you understand that nothing can be done by voting for councilman A or B, if you know that passing some legislation cannot help us retake control of our political system, economy, environment and lives than this is the book for you.

Some of the previous reviewers accuse Ted Rall of not offering an alternative to the current system. I assume that they failed to read the bit about "...a transition to socialism". Indeed, Rall is a socialist and the alternative according to him is a transition to a system that operates in accordance with the principle of fulfilling basic human need through a democratically and centrally-planned system of production.

Rall understands that social revolution and serious business and points out that the immediate consequences might be civil war or even the breakup of the country--as it has been the case in history. He warns us against pacifist wishful thinking--common among the American left--that widely spread belief that system will simply run it's course and collapse under the weight of it's own internal and irreconcilable contradictions. He points to the example of the Soviet Union where the collapse of a corrupt and degenerated socialist state lead to capitalist counter-revolution and an system in which the working people of Russia suffer even more terribly than under the previous regime.

Rall has some choice words for the left. He is especially critical of the anarchists in the deep green movement who believe that after the collapse of industrial capitalism--which they deem inevitable--they will live in peaceful, isolated and self-sustaining communes. Rall points out that reactionary forces of the right (well funded, organized and concentrated in the bastions of American Evangelical right-wing conservativism) will never allow this, and that if American anarchists persist on turning their back on revolution, counter-revolution will come to them. His argument why revolution is necessary now and not in some undetermined point in the future can be summed up in the famous quote by V.I. Lenin, "We can have socialism, or barbarism".

This book will not be well received by left-of-center liberals or nationalists (all liberals are nationalistic to some degree) as they will brand the book as Anti-american. They will not respond well to the parts where parallels are made between the genocide and aggression of Nazi Germany and American foreign policy in our period--even after they are reminded the American military operations during the 20th century have resulted in over 10 million deaths. Their intellectual conditioning has thought them that America plays an essentially positive role in global affairs (despite the occasional shortcomings), that the constitution is a sacred document containing eternal truths about life and politics, and that this is their government that has been temporarily overtaken by evil and greedy people; they will never understand that that the entire system that was erected on the principle of capitalist private property is flawed and needs to be replaced with something better. This is ok as Rall writes, we do not need them and we who have the courage need to take up our historical responsibility and save the human race from the ravages of the capitalist world order orchestrated and maintained by the United States. If you believe that you are up to the task, read this book and discuss it with your friends and loved ones.

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James Zeller

A Must-Read for Generation Y

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2014

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A comprehensive look into the very real possibility of an American revolution in the near future. Ted Rall's writing was invigorating, inspiring, and something that anyone who has ever questioned the current system we live in should read.

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James Herrick

The Anti-american Manifesto by Ted Rall

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2011

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Potential readers should not dismiss carefully examining this book due to the authors prior work, media speculation about the author, and judgements by so-called reviewers who havenot read the book with an open mind. Having lived eighty years in this country working as a social worker and academic teaching courses on fundamental change, traveling periodically in different parts of the world I had almost given up on my search for a honest,direct, and critical current assessment about what has gone wrong in this country, why, and what concerned people can do about it. Then I ran across this book and carefully read it with some degree of initial shock and depression due to the authors very vivid and direct style and not beating around the bushes in order to appease readers not open to considering revolutionary violent strategies of change where the focus is on further disrupting capitalism as the centerpiece of the American lifestyle. Finally, in contrast to much of the relevant historical literature the author writes in a very engaging and down to earth style with many practical ideas for the reader to become engaged in the process of change beyond simply protest about what exists.

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Good!

Reviewed in the United States on March 21, 2013

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Old Tim

Another great rant from Ted Rall!

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2015

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This is typical Ted Rall, pretty much of a rant but then I like ted Rall's rants1

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2016

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Great book---the beginning of a revolution to topple America's fascist system of government.

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Zeeshan Hasan

A good read, but what about the Green Party?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 5, 2011

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It's almost a given that Rall is preaching to the converted; not many conservative republicans or centrist democrats would pick up a book with this title. But Rall does a good job of taking the reader on a tour of how the US two-party electoral system has failed the average American in terms of deceitful wars, poor job security and nonexistent healthcare (and certainly failed the world, when you factor in the unwillingness of any US president to seriously address climate change).

His solution, preparation for armed revolution, seems to be going overboard. Why not just vote for the Green Party instead? That's a serious option to the dominant parties in both the US and UK, but voters have consistently failed to back it in spite of griping endlessly about the meaningless of politics as usual.

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