Carne Ross

Leaderless Revolution: Reviews

It’s been a long time since I’ve read a more interesting, informing and inspiring book than ‘The Leaderless Revolution: how ordinary people will take power and change politics in the 21stcentury’.

Bill Moyers

“Ross makes an impassioned case not just against leadership but against any form of representation, even representative democracy, arguing that it hasn’t worked…I found these stories thrilling.

Harvard Business Review

“Puts the ‘We’ back into ‘Yes we can’

Books of the Year 2011, The Herald, Scotland

“So bold, so full of incontestable truths and overwhelming convictions, that it should be read by every diplomat, politician and thinking citizen with the courage to pick it up.

John le Carré

“A remarkable call to arms

Jon Snow

“If everyone read this book, politics might begin to be about trusting each other rather than lobbies, subsidies and cynicism.

Books of the Year 2011, The Daily Telegraph

“Carne Ross takes up where Naomi Klein, Noreena Hertz and others left off. This is an impassioned, idealistic critique of the state of global politics and the deepening rift between those with power and those without.

The Guardian

“Idealistic and impassioned, wide-ranging and concise, pragmatic and eloquent…The Leaderless Revolution stands out in its insightful treatment of the nuance-colored, complex, seemingly irrational and inexplicably tumultuous events.

The New York Journal of Books

“[an] important contribution to the new age of thinking that is rapidly emerging as a consequence of the crisis of globalised capitalism

Huffington Post

“Unlike other books of this nature, which readily point out the societal flaws that surround us, Ross actually posits solutions to the hegemonic dominance of liberal democracy… [It’s] as good a time as any to re-evaluate this thought-provoking book, which offers a well timed and extensively researched interpretation on the themes of democracy, stability and anarchy

PolicyPeriscope
The Daily Telegraph features The Leaderless Revolution as a Book of the Year 2011:
John Burnside. The surprise hit of 2011, in our house at least, was The Leaderless Revolution (Simon and Schuster, £16.99), an inspiring plea for emergent anarchism from former British WMD and sanctions expert Carne Ross. If everyone read this book, politics might begin to be about trusting each other rather than lobbies, subsidies and cynicism.

From “Books of the Year, 2011” in Scotland’s Herald:

…Inspiring to read it alongside Carne Ross’s wonderful account of his journey from British WMD expert at the UN to emergent anarchist, The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Can Take Power And Change Politics In The 21st Century (Simon & Schuster, £16.99). Puts the “We” back into “Yes We Can”.
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James Denselow, Huffington Post and International Affairs 

a thinking man’s neo-anarchist whose book outlines both the failures of representative democracy in the era of globalisation and ways in which empowered individuals can succeed in the future
[an] important contribution to the new age of thinking that is rapidly emerging as a consequence of the crisis of globalised capitalism