Letters to My Children and the Children of the World to Come

Readers of Vaneigem's now-classic work The Revolution of Everyday Life, which as one of the main contributions of the Situationist International was a herald of the May 1968 uprisings in France, will find much to challenge them in these pages written in the highest idiom of subversive utopianism.Written some thirty-five years after the May ';events,' this short book poses the question of what kind of world we are going to leave to our children. ';How could I address my daughters, my sons, my grandchildren and great-grandchildren,' wonders Vaneigem, ';without including all the others who, once precipitated into the sordid universe of money and power, are in danger, even tomorrow, of being deprived of the promise of a life that is undeniably offered at birth as a gift with nothing expected in return?'A Letter to My Children provides a clear-eyed survey of the critical predicament into which the capitalist system has now plunged the world, but at the same time, in true dialectical fashion, and ';far from the media whose job it is to ignore them,' Vaneigem discerns all the signs of ';a new burgeoning of life forces among the younger generations, a new drive to reinstate true human values, to proceed with the clandestine construction of a living society beneath the barbarity of the present and the ruins of the Old World.'