Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Crystal clear Bright Potential by Paul Mason, browse by Finlay Robertson.

Our world order is under great pressure as nothing you’ve seen prior. From brand-new authoritarian regimes in america, Turkey and Russia, to the imminent break-up of europe and a social networking awash with intolerance, factors look set to fall apart just as abruptly as the Soviet Union did some thirty years ago. How do we get here, and what perform we do now?

Within this searching new exploration of our crisis, Paul about Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the INDIVIDUAL Mason argues that at its heart lies an attack on the thought of humanity itself. As the free-market system reduced us to two-dimensional consumers, genetics offers stripped us of our perception in humans as real estate agents of change. And today the dystopian pushes from the authoritarian right are pushing the globe towards a pre-modern understanding of the individual: one which aims to eliminate the very idea of common human privileges, and create a new world where we are biologically destined to create hierarchies predicated on ethnicity and gender, also to obey the demands of spiritual conformity.

If these forces are not stopped, Mason warns, we will relive something worse compared to the 1930s. In response, he needs a radical defence of the human being: a reinvention of humanism; a re-assertion from the universality of individual rights; and challenging for a culture where biologically decided hierarchies are abolished. We have the power to assume and design a better system. We should, Mason concludes, reach deep into the background and experience of resistance to become our very own saviours.