- Paperback: 196 pages
- Publisher: Pluto Press (Sep 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0745315321
- ISBN-13: 978-0745315324
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.4 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 824,370 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"With acid wit and somber truths, Susan George brilliantly portrays through the eyes of imagined, but all too realistic planners, a world that may be heading for deep trouble." Noam Chomsky
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'In this satire, a summit on preserving the capitalist order comes to some disturbing conclusions as it follows the logic of capitalism ad infinitum.' --Washington Post 'With acid wit and somber truths, The Lugano Report brilliantly portrays, through the eyes of its imagined but all too realistic planners, a world that may be heading for deep trouble.' --Noam Chomsky 'A brilliant, terrifying book which should be on the beside table of every policy maker in the West.' --Victoria Brittain 'Susan George's intimate knowledge of the bureaucratic mindset means that the book works superbly as a satire - following the example of Swift's Modest Proposal - but her greater aim is to show that there are viable alternatives to this nightmare.' --New Internationalist
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I put a quote from Noam Chomsky on the back of the book " With acid wit and sombre truths, the Lugano Report brilliantly portrays a world that may be heading for deep trouble" Noam Chomsky
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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful
A frightening look at the logic of capitalism.
20 Mar 2000
Format:Paperback
Susan George uses her impressize knowledge of global capitalism to and its effects on the many to look at the picture from the side of the few. The report presents a frightening look at what would be required to preserve the current capitalist order in the face of the increasing impoveritization of an increasingly populous and ecologically strained world.
The report was originally written as a hoax (she was not going to claim authorship), however, for reasons she declines to elaborate on she chose not go through with it. I actually wish she had released it as real, to see the reaction of the elite pundits and media who will now feel secure in ignoring the book.
Even so, it is a worthwile read, primarily as it helps us see what kind of reforms of the global economy would simply tame the excesses of capitalism and thereby make the system only stronger, and what reforms would truely challenge the powers that be.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Best thing I've read this year
20 Mar 2005
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Richard Morgan's booklist at the end of his SF romance, "Market Forces", got me reading this. To him, thanks for the goto. To you, I recommend both works.
Although the original edition of "Lugano Report" is six years old, I've not read anything this year that is more relevant to the situation in the USA in 2005. Nor could I have voiced my own opinion of that situation any better than George does in her introduction to the 2003 edition:
"I can think of only one historical parallel to the demented band of entrepreneurial thugs who have taken over in Washington, which is, of course, Hitler and the Nazis. In this book, distinctions are made between their kind of fascism and the 'Lugano'-type scenario now unfolding. If the latter succeeds, it will be a fascist regime minus the concentration camps and gas chambers but including the rule of mega-corporations; a pseudo-religious, all-embracing ideology drummed into the populace by a compliant media; mass surveillance; and a master race disposing as it pleases, through military force, economic coercion or cultural bribery, of the lesser, darker-skinned and infidel breeds, as well as the dissidents within its own ranks."
If you want some background on how we got here, and a preview of our Singapore-Model future, this is the place to start.
Although the original edition of "Lugano Report" is six years old, I've not read anything this year that is more relevant to the situation in the USA in 2005. Nor could I have voiced my own opinion of that situation any better than George does in her introduction to the 2003 edition:
"I can think of only one historical parallel to the demented band of entrepreneurial thugs who have taken over in Washington, which is, of course, Hitler and the Nazis. In this book, distinctions are made between their kind of fascism and the 'Lugano'-type scenario now unfolding. If the latter succeeds, it will be a fascist regime minus the concentration camps and gas chambers but including the rule of mega-corporations; a pseudo-religious, all-embracing ideology drummed into the populace by a compliant media; mass surveillance; and a master race disposing as it pleases, through military force, economic coercion or cultural bribery, of the lesser, darker-skinned and infidel breeds, as well as the dissidents within its own ranks."
If you want some background on how we got here, and a preview of our Singapore-Model future, this is the place to start.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Shockingly Real
16 May 2002
Format:Paperback
This document, more that a "report" is a cold blood, cynical guide to enslave, decimate and exterminate the surplus or the human population using methods as birth control, contagious diseases, political, religious and ethnic conflicts and wars, famines, low salaries, etc. This "report" that may be see for many people as a science fiction novel or a Malthus write is a nowaday reality. If we pay attention to everyday news, we could see that most of the formulas mentioned in this "report" have being applied around the world in a systematic way as isolated cases successfully with none or few opposition by the victims. I strongly recommend this book to those people that in some way or another can do something to stop this systematic plan already running.
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