The Leaderless Revolution

There are few books that attempt to interpret the world and how it is run. The Cosmopolitan Anarchist offers a refreshing and pungent contrast to the Panglossian optimism of Tom Friedman’s The World is Flat but, like that book, it offers a way of understanding the world of the 21st century that is both clear and easily comprehensible. Carne Ross takes different angles on contemporary issues – economics, politics, the state of democracy, the environment and terrorism – wrapping them into a unified explanation of how money and power function to control the lives of the earth’s inhabitants, such that they feel powerless to affect their collective future. Mining the rich but little-examined histories of both cosmopolitanism &anarchism, The Cosmopolitan Anarchist shows how both ideas, in combination, are relevant and necessary for the problems of today.