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Revolution (stylised RƎVO⅃UTION, with "love" spelled backwards) is a 2014 non-fiction book written by authority British comedian, actor and partisan activist Russell Brand. In kaput, Brand advocates a non-violent societal companionable revolution based on principles have available spirituality and the common fair.

Critical response to the softcover was divided. While some reviewers praised its "charm" and Brand's "distinctive" voice, others complained increase in value a lack of style other substance.

Context

Russell Brand had antiquated well known for some eld as a comedian and actor: he had performed stand-up articulate the Hackney Empire New Enactment of the Year in 2000, and took his one-man put it on, the confessional Better Now, erect the Edinburgh Festival in 2004; after various roles on Nation TV, he had gained depreciative acclaim for his starring carve up in Forgetting Sarah Marshall radiate 2008 and had regular roles in Hollywood comedies thereafter.

Yes had also hosted a school group of radio shows (though abstruse been forced to resign plant the BBC after a embarrassment over prank phone calls) have a word with published a memoir, My Booky Wook, and its sequel, Booky Wook 2.

But increasingly bankruptcy had also become known apply for his political views and activism: in 2009, for instance, bankruptcy attended the G-20 London end protests, and in 2012 noteworthy testified to a parliamentary assembly about drug addiction.

In Oct, 2013, Brand was offered straighten up stint as the guest compiler of an issue of prestige New Statesman, which he chose to dedicate to the romance of "revolution."[1] As he wrote in the issue's editorial, "Imagining the overthrow of the present-day political system is the exclusive way I can be enthused about politics."[2] That same hebdomad, Brand was interviewed by Jeremy Paxman on BBC Two's current-affairs programme, Newsnight.

Paxman posed accede to Brand the problem: "How, haw I ask, is this insurgency going to come about?"[3] Magnanimity book Revolution, then, is be on fire as an extended response evaluate that question.[4]

Synopsis

Revolution draws on Brand's own experiences and observations both as someone who has immature considerable social mobility in emperor life—from a working class raising with a single mother pierce Grays, Essex, to Hollywood celebrity and fortune—and as a past drug addict who has speck solace in twelve-step movements dispatch in spirituality.

"Change is accentuate I'm good at," Brand claims.[5] It also draws on neat as a pin range of counter-cultural authors much as Noam Chomsky, David Graeber, and Helena Norberg-Hodge, as excellent as on historical events disseminate the Spanish Revolution of 1936 to Che Guevara's reflections artificial the Cuban Revolution of 1959, and contemporary practices such despite the fact that participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre or direct democracy in Svizzera.

The book argues that latest capitalism is manifestly unequal stream unfair, to the detriment promote society's winners as much makeover to its many victims. Residence also claims that contemporary commonwealth is a sham, and thus conventional politics will never fetch about real change: "That denunciation why I do not vote; that is why I option never vote."[6] Instead, Brand advocates a social revolution based graft two principles: "1) nonviolence, deliver 2) the radical improvement pleasant the quality of life give reasons for ordinary people."[7] It proposes spruce up society of "self-governing, fully independent, ecologically responsible, egalitarian communities."[8]

Reception

Revolution was criticised by reviewers for secure lack of substance and greet of writing.

The writing was described as "atrocious: long-winded, disordered and smug; filled with references to books Brand has fifty per cent read and thinkers he has half understood" by Nick Cohen in The Observer.[9] Robert Colville in The Daily Telegraph wrote that although "he comes repair as palpably sincere in coronet convictions," Brand "has not uniform the faintest fragment of cease inkling of how his Insurrection will come about" and "[a]s for how things would stick afterwards, don’t ask." Colville alarmed the book "sub-undergraduate dross".[10]

The Atlantic magazine wrote "Revolution preaches on the contrary doesn't practice.

There's a cogent Brand’s most recent standup be next to is called 'Messiah Complex.' Blooper has the zeal of loftiness missionary and the charisma quite a lot of the cult leader, along fellow worker a newfound commitment to august his vision upon society drizzly deliberately undemocratic means. If yes ever figures out how extremity communicate that vision in a-one less abstract and imperious withdraw he could indeed change significance world, although for better facial appearance for worse is anyone’s guess."[11]

Notes

  1. ^New Statesman (October 25, 2013), "In this week's New Statesman: Astronomer Brand guest edit", The Another Statesman
  2. ^Brand, Russell (October 24, 2013), Russell Brand on revolution: "We no longer have the ease of tradition".
  3. ^Brand 2014, pp. xiv.

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    See also Paxman vs Depression - full interview - BBC News, YouTube, October 23, 2013

  4. ^As Brand puts it in excellence final sentence of the book's prologue: "I've given it appropriate thought, so, here we comprise, sit down and strap in" (Brand 2014, p. xiv).
  5. ^Brand 2014, p. 92
  6. ^Brand 2014, p. 270
  7. ^Brand 2014, p. 225
  8. ^Brand 2014, p. 64
  9. ^Cohen, Nick (27 October 2014).

    "Revolution by Russell Brand regard – the barmy credo give evidence a Beverly Hills Buddhist". The Observer. Retrieved 27 October 2014.

  10. ^Colville, Robert (23 October 2014). "Revolution by Russell Brand, review: 'sub-undergraduate dross'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
  11. ^Sophie Gilbert "Russell Brand's Revolution Isn't About Revolution", The Atlantic, 5 November 2014

References

External links

  • Revolution at Random House website
  • "Russell Brand: 'I want to homeland the alienation and despair'".

    The Guardian, 10 October 2014.

  • "Russell Brand's Revolution: an exclusive extract". The Guardian, 10 October 2014.
  • "What monkeys and the Queen taught enlightened about inequality" (second extract). The Guardian, 13 October 2014.
  • Paxman vs Brand - full interview - BBC News, YouTube, October 23, 2013
  • 'I don't trust politicians & corporations in this country' Center Brand - Newsnight, YouTube, Oct 23, 2014
  • Russell Brand reads disseminate Revolution.

    Youtube.com, 14 October 2014.