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(en) France, UCL AL #348 - Culture, Reading Ernest London and Fred Sochard: Is it fair? Critical Activity Book (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Date Sat, 1 Jun 2024 09:15:42 +0300


Libertalia Editions released an activity book at the end of 2023! Could this be a sign of an gentrification of the Montreal publishing house which is seeking to establish itself in the growing niche of exercise books for children or adults? Is the libertarian publishing house giving in to the sirens of big capital? Nope. This Critical Activity Book is indeed a new cartridge, even a cartridge belt in itself, which aims to strengthen our critical arsenal by submitting "to each person's calculation some of the major problems of our time".

Faced with the abstraction of major contemporary problems such as social inequalities, the destruction of life or even nuclear power, Ernest London, aka the Librarian-Armourer, accompanied by Fred Sochard for illustrations, offers 21 small, fun calculation exercises as much as terrifying because they are terribly telling and open to discussion.

For example, the first proposes to calculate Lucy's fortune if she had been paid the minimum wage at the value of 2023 and saved all of her salaries since her birth 3.18 million years ago, then to answer the question of whether this cumulative sum would be enough for Lucy to be one of the ten biggest fortunes in the world today. I'm spilling the beans, obviously not! We know well that work does not pay, unless you exploit that of others. Here the example is particularly telling.

So over the pages we will be able to calculate, at the current speed of extinction of species, how long it will take them all to disappear. How much was spent around the world on weapons during the "International Year of Peace"? How many wells could have been built with the sums spent by the space mission to search for traces of water on Mars? Etc.

This Critical Activity Book thus allows, by resolving in a fun way some major social issues in our contemporary societies, to take stock of the damage, but also offers concrete avenues for resolution. A weapon to put in everyone's hands (including the youngest) and exercises to solve in collective mode.

David (UCL Savoies)

Ernest London and Fred Sochard, Is it right? Critical activity notebook, Éditions Libertalia, 56 pages, 10 euros.

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Ernest-London-et-Fred-Sochard-C-est-juste-Cahier-d-activites-critiques
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