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Summary: The Most Important Book
Review: The contribution of this book to understanding the Holocaust is secondary to the impact it has on our understanding of the future. This book explains where Capitalism will take us.The reduction of workers to just another cost of production that must be minimized... The obvious way to do that. It is happening in prisions in America and sweatshops in Asia right now... and don't think it isn't coming home. Rubenstein is a clarion call to a new generation. This book changed my life and I as sure it will do the same for you.
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Summary: A little book on history that will really make you think.
Review: This is only a small book (less than 100 pages), but it packs a lot of ideas into it's content. This is an "objective" view of the 20th century trend towards mass murder, and the forces described in this book, while based in a european context can be seen to hold true for virtually all "modern" societies, including Asia and Africa. The author explains the link between a well organised bureaucratic organisation with an objective view to "processing" people through their rules. The danger of having large groups of "displaced" and "no-nation" peoples combined with a tendancy to rationlise away those peoples "rights" in society - to make them effectivley "non-people" and outside the law. It also brings home the reality that power *does* corrupt - or at least finds excuses for all it does to other people. The author has presented us with a possible bleak future in many ways. This book is also a mirror to how we justify the choices of our modern life and the picture is not always pretty. In the past, where "jews" may have been the target, today discrimination is trending towards the poor, and once again with the displaced and dispossed. Read in conjunction with "no Logo", this book is very enlightening - though out of the 2 books this is the better written. Worth picking up, reading and keeping.
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