This modest, sit-inspired pamphlet comes from the UK, and -- as is clear from the subtitle -- takes as its topic, the current crisis.
From the first page:
The cascading set of economic maladies colloquially referred to as "the credit crunch" reveals with all too painful clarity the absurdity of both the dominant capitalist society and the lives we live within it. That global production and distribution should come to depend on reckless debt and the trading of such debt starkly demonstrates yet again how the capitalist economy exists outside the control and good sense of individuals whose labour, creativity and desires it appropriates. That we did nothing of substance to challenge the absurdities of the autonomous economy, or even went so far as to pursue its delusive promises with relish, is one more reminder, for those who need it, of the timidity and nullity of the way we pretend to live.
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