Theory of Immediate World Revolution
A Handbook for the Avant-Garde
Marcel Mariën author Ian Thompson translator Anna O'Meara translator Nadège Lejeune translator Anna O'Meara editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verso Books
Publishing:8th Sep '26
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 8th September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A blueprint for revolution: part manifesto, part performance, and a provocation to rethink the very idea of change.
In 1958, Belgian surrealist Marcel Mariën drafted a plan to topple capitalism on a global scale-achievable in a single year, in any place, at any time. The catch? It required three hundred accomplices, and it was destined to fail.
Mariën's text dares to imagine the unimaginable, offering a blueprint as much for play as for politics. By fusing the spirit of surrealism with the urgency of the atomic age, Mariën exposes the thin line between theory and performance, reality and fiction. This book captures one of his boldest gestures: a proposal not to succeed, but to alter the very way we think about revolution.
What if the path to world revolution lay through the actions of an invisible committee pulling the strings through an advertising and marketing company? What if you could fund the revolution with a line of credit which, after it succeeds, you wouldn't need to repay? Marcel Mariën's delirious, surrealious, Swiftian text from 1958 remains a delightful manual for the meme wars in and against the disintegrating spectacle. -- McKenzie Wark, author of Leaving the Twentieth Century: Situationist Revolutions
ISBN: 9781788733656
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 300g
192 pages
Paperback original