Creating Freedom: Power, Control and the Fight for Our Future

We are far less free than we like to think. In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez exposes the mechanisms of control that pervade our lives and the myths on which they depend. Exploring the lottery of our birth, the coercive influence of concentrated wealth, and the consent-manufacturing realities of undemocratic power, he shows that our faith in free media, free markets, free elections and free will is dangerously misplaced. Written with empathy and imagination, this scholarly, fierce and profoundly hopeful manifesto makes a dazzling case for creating freedom on our own terms.

Reviews of Creating Freedom: Power, Control and the Fight for Our Future

Exceptional … This year's essential text for thinking radicals * Guardian * Martinez speaks for a generation living through a profound mismatch between their aspirations for freedom and creativity and the thudding conformity a society, driven by the market, demands — PAUL MASON Comes the moment; comes the book. A 'manifesto for real and radical change'. This is a brilliant and timely analysis of our political landscape and the ideals which should inform how we reshape the world — HELENA KENNEDY QC Thought-provoking … sound and persuasive … Eminently readable with a an elegance of style not often found in theoretical works. It is no less than a rallying cry to take back the substance rather than the illusions of our freedoms * New Internationalist * Provocative, powerful and important, Creating Freedom is a rigorous exploration of what's gone wrong with our society and how to make it right — SUSAN SARANDON Lucid and bright, Creating Freedom is a light to guide us onward. Please read it — RUSSELL BRAND I've been working my way through, highlighter in hand, at times thinking ""why bother! Just highight the whole thing"". Super impressive — DAVID BYRNE Everyone trying to puzzle through how to deal with the madness of the world – and the forces destroying it – should read this book — JOHANN HARI In this stunning and lucid book, Raoul Martinez re-assesses our past, re-examines our present, and re-imagines our future. It's such an exciting and compelling read that you almost don't notice at first how radical it is. Creating Freedom makes me think that we humans are on the cusp of our next big step – and it's this kind of thinking that will carry us over — BRIAN ENO This discussion of the impossibility of ultimate moral responsibility is extremely well written, aphoristic in places, and philosophically right on target — GALEN STRAWSON A profound and interesting project — NICK DAVIES An impassioned social and political critique with glimmers of hope for change … An intelligent, rigorous manifesto * Kirkus *