The Anti-Manifesto

Marx claimed workers had nothing to lose but their chains. He never saw that he was forging new ones.THE ANTI-MANIFESTO reveals the hidden mechanism that turns every revolution into tyranny, every liberation into new slavery. Through René Girard's mimetic theory, George reveals why capital cannot be destroyed-because it arises from human consciousness itself-and why attempts to eliminate it only create more violent forms of the very oppression revolutionaries claim to fight.From the Communist Manifesto's hypnotic spell to contemporary social justice movements, this work exposes how "Satan cannot cast out Satan" and why the real revolution is renunciation, not seizure of power.For readers who sense something deeply wrong with both capitalism and its critics-here is the framework you've been seeking. eorge Boreas is a Canadian expat living in Shanghai, China. He was born in the Balkans. He has a professional background in engineering and business, and he now teaches economics. He moonlights as as an amateur boxer and a writer of short stories, novels, and essays on René Girard's mimetic theory.