Don’t Look Up

March 2024 Forums General discussion Don’t Look Up

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    alanjjohnstone
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    Just to say that the movie’s theme of an impending global disaster due to a comet collision is one that our late comrade Pieter Lawrence wrote about in his book, The Last Conflict. To minimise the destruction, worldwide cooperation takes place and the economic laws of capitalism are disregarded.

    Something to link to in social media

    #225889
    DJP
    Participant

    To minimise the destruction, worldwide cooperation takes place and the economic laws of capitalism are disregarded.

    Sounds like the opposite plot to the one in the film.

    There’s an interesting review of it here.

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    I’ve had the occasion to think, during the ‘rona crisis, how it proved that book wrong, they would really rather rule in hell than live in heaven. In some ways, it’s been quite shocking to see.

    #226038
    ZJW
    Participant

    Alan —

    Do you not recall that Final Conflict was uploaded to libcom by jondwhite a good many years ago and a pdf of it can be freely downloaded there?
    https://libcom.org/library/last-conflict

    (A bit more practical than linking to a free preview of it on Amazon, no?)

    #226039
    ALB
    Keymaster

    Review here in this month’s Socialist Standard up online today.

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