Nerd Picnic rated Blueprint for revolution: 3 stars
Blueprint for revolution by Srdja Popovic
"In Blueprint for Revolution, Srdja Popovic outlines his philosophy for implementing peaceful world change and provides a model for activists …
- No footnotes and few primary source quotations.
- Takes a Freudian approach to its analysis, which was outdated even in 1971. But that could have been okay (given that men's attitudes toward sex and toward women are actually relevant to the topic) IF he had also brought in some other angles like changing economic conditions etc. to explain the rakes' behavior.
- There were several odd factual mistakes and contradictions that made me wonder if they were simply typos. For example, one chapter leads off by saying that Lord So-and-So was awarded land by King Charles I for his loyalty during the civil war ... in 1627, fifteen years before the civil war started.
- Chastises at least a dozen women as scheming nymphomaniacs or harlots, when all they did was have as much premarital (or extramarital) sex as everyone else seemed to be having while also pursuing their own …
