Revolt

The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization

By: Nadav Eyal

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

"A well-written and thought-provoking account of the current crisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal's interpretation, but few will remain indifferent." —Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens

An eye-opening examination of nationalism’s spread around the world as the promise of globalism wanes

Revolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the rise of nationalism and populism. With a vibrant and informed voice, Nadav Eyal illustrates how modern globalization is not sustainable. He contends that the collapse of the current world order is not so much about the imbalance between technological achievement and social progress or the breakdown of liberal democracy as it is about a passion to upend and destroy power structures that have become hollow, corrupt, or simply unresponsive to urgent needs. Eyal illuminates the benign and malignant forces that have so rapidly transformed our economic, political, and cultural realities, shedding light not only on the economic and cultural revolution that has come to define our time but also on the counterrevolution waged by those it has marginalized and exploited.

With a mixture of journalistic narrative, penetrating vignettes, and original analysis, Revolt shows that the left and right have much in common. Eyal tells stories of distressed Pennsylvania coal miners, anarchist communes on the outskirts of Athens, a Japanese town with collapsing fertility rates, neo-Nazis in Germany, and Syrian refugee families whom he accompanied from the shores of Greece to their destination in Germany. Into these reports from the present Eyal weaves lessons from the past, from the opium wars in China to colonialist Haiti to the Marshall Plan. With these historical ties, he shows that the revolts’ roots have always been deep and strong, and that rather than seeing current uprisings as part of a passing phenomenon, we should recognize that revolt is the new status quo.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2020 Nadav Eyal (P)2021 HarperAudio

Limited insight

Does not compare to Martin G’s “Revolt of the Public”. I just didn’t find it insightful.

Good book

I listen to the entire book with relative interest
However the book doesn’t bring any new ideas; and the facts are not entirely relevant for and against globalization ;

Understand the reality

A must-read book!

In his unique way, Nadav combines economic, political, historical, and artistic information into the story of our reality.

Good observations, very politically biased.

To start off I enjoyed Eyal’s observations about the current global state and found them moving. He was very politically biased however, assuming in his text that the reader thinks that Donald Trump is one of the worst things to happen in modern history to say the least. This left me frustrated and gave me an overall very negative view of an otherwise very good work. If you are conservative or Trump fan I would not recommend this book, it will only piss you off. If you dislike Trump and other conservative talking points, enjoy!