--- product_id: 35627314 title: "Wages of Rebellion" price: "NT$1468" currency: TWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tw/products/35627314-wages-of-rebellion store_origin: TW region: Taiwan --- # Wages of Rebellion **Price:** NT$1468 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Wages of Rebellion - **How much does it cost?** NT$1468 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tw](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/35627314-wages-of-rebellion) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner offers a compelling case for the necessity of resistance in our turbulent times, and shows how rebellions—however quixotic or irrational they seem—are key to realizing a more ideal world A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller In the face of modern conditions, revolution is inevitable. The social inequality, political stagnation, devastation of our environment by corporations, stripping away of our civil liberties, and creation of a monstrous surveillance system—all of these have combined to spark a profound revolutionary moment. In Wages of Rebellion , Chris Hedges explores what it takes to be a rebel and why rebellion has become a moral imperative. He tells the stories of radicals and dissenters from around the world and throughout history, from South African activists who dedicated their lives to ending apartheid, to contemporary anti-fracking protestors in Canada, to whistleblowers in pursuit of transparency. Along the way, Hedges is unflinching in showing the cost of a life dedicated to truth and justice. Review: A must read for any who care... - No one expresses our current despair better than Hedges. [excerpts]: We live in a revolutionary moment. The disastrous economic and political experiment that attempted to organize human behavior around the dictates of the global marketplace has failed. The promised prosperity that was to have raised the living standards of workers through trickle-down economics has been exposed as a lie. A tiny global oligarchy has amassed obscene wealth, while the engine of unfettered corporate capitalism plunders resources; exploits cheap, unorganized labor; and creates pliable, corrupt governments that abandon the common good to serve corporate profit. The relentless drive by the fossil fuel industry for profits is destroying the ecosystem, threatening the viability of the human species. And no mechanisms to institute genuine reform or halt the corporate assault are left within the structures of power, which have surrendered to corporate control. The citizen has become irrelevant. He or she can participate in heavily choreographed elections, but the demands of corporations and banks are paramount. History has demonstrated that the seizure of power by a tiny cabal, whether a political party or a clique of oligarchs, leads to despotism. Governments that cater exclusively to a narrow interest group and redirect the machinery of state to furthering the interests of that interest group are no longer capable of responding rationally in times of crisis. Blindly serving their masters, they acquiesce to the looting of state treasuries to bail out corrupt financial houses and banks while ignoring chronic unemployment and underemployment, along with stagnant or declining wages, crippling debt peonage, a collapsing infrastructure, and millions left destitute and often homeless by deceptive mortgages and foreclosures. *** Our inability, as citizens, to influence power in a system of corporate or inverted totalitarianism, along with the loss of our civil liberties, weakens the traditional political vocabulary of a capitalist democracy. The descent of nearly half the country into poverty or near poverty diminishes the effectiveness of the rhetoric about limitless growth and ceaseless material progress. It undermines the myth of American prosperity. The truths are dimly apparent. But we have yet to sever ourselves from the old way of speaking and formulate a new language to explain us to ourselves. Until this happens the corporate state can harness the old language like a weapon and employ the institutions of power and organs of state to perpetuate itself. *** We have been captivated in the modern age by what John Ralston Saul calls 'a theology of pure power' built on 'organization, technology and information.' Our new priest, he writes, is the technocrat. 'the man who understands the organization, makes use of the technology and controls access to the information, which is a compendium of facts.' These technocrats have 'rendered powerless the law,' which is no longer used, as it was designed, 'to protect the individual from the unreasonable actions of others, especially those in power.' It is a weapon of injustice wielded by those who have married 'the state and the means of production.' Review: Contrarian Journalist - Chris Hedges is for me a reoccurring event. I first discovered him when following his pieces in the New York Times as a war corresponded in a region I knew something about, the Balkans. My impression: a man who understands what is happening; not a common occurrence in the media. He has never weaken that impression as he has moved on to other fields of inquire and other forms of publications, leaving he Times in 2003. He provoked me to try and find his roots and one of the most telling is time spent in Theology on the way to Journalism. My review of his Death of the Liberal Class calling him: The conscience of America and while (a few) others still play that role few are so relentless. He describes one cause of the crisis of our time the incompatibility of corporate control and democratic institutions and he issued a new introduction of Princeton University reissue of Sheldon Wolin’s Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism, the power house who polished that theme. This work shows him further along dealing with the issue of what then? Things must change but how will they —Rebellion. Here he calls on his own lifetime observations of régimes in decay, the rich historic descriptions of empires in decline and a roster of revolutionaries successful and not; thought provoking, as all of his works. In his acknowledgments he list a class mate of mine from fifty years ago who also went into the field of Journalism – successfully -- Robert Scheer who shares Hedges contrarian nature and has also a checkered career. These gentlemen and men and women like them are the beating heart of what is left of the free press in this captured state: America. Support them when you can but you will need to go looking to find them. Less a case in Chris's case. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #621,534 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #325 in African Politics #355 in Radical Political Thought #408 in Political Freedom (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 540 Reviews | ## Images ![Wages of Rebellion - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71zNV3pjaqL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A must read for any who care... *by S***N on February 13, 2016* No one expresses our current despair better than Hedges. [excerpts]: We live in a revolutionary moment. The disastrous economic and political experiment that attempted to organize human behavior around the dictates of the global marketplace has failed. The promised prosperity that was to have raised the living standards of workers through trickle-down economics has been exposed as a lie. A tiny global oligarchy has amassed obscene wealth, while the engine of unfettered corporate capitalism plunders resources; exploits cheap, unorganized labor; and creates pliable, corrupt governments that abandon the common good to serve corporate profit. The relentless drive by the fossil fuel industry for profits is destroying the ecosystem, threatening the viability of the human species. And no mechanisms to institute genuine reform or halt the corporate assault are left within the structures of power, which have surrendered to corporate control. The citizen has become irrelevant. He or she can participate in heavily choreographed elections, but the demands of corporations and banks are paramount. History has demonstrated that the seizure of power by a tiny cabal, whether a political party or a clique of oligarchs, leads to despotism. Governments that cater exclusively to a narrow interest group and redirect the machinery of state to furthering the interests of that interest group are no longer capable of responding rationally in times of crisis. Blindly serving their masters, they acquiesce to the looting of state treasuries to bail out corrupt financial houses and banks while ignoring chronic unemployment and underemployment, along with stagnant or declining wages, crippling debt peonage, a collapsing infrastructure, and millions left destitute and often homeless by deceptive mortgages and foreclosures. *** Our inability, as citizens, to influence power in a system of corporate or inverted totalitarianism, along with the loss of our civil liberties, weakens the traditional political vocabulary of a capitalist democracy. The descent of nearly half the country into poverty or near poverty diminishes the effectiveness of the rhetoric about limitless growth and ceaseless material progress. It undermines the myth of American prosperity. The truths are dimly apparent. But we have yet to sever ourselves from the old way of speaking and formulate a new language to explain us to ourselves. Until this happens the corporate state can harness the old language like a weapon and employ the institutions of power and organs of state to perpetuate itself. *** We have been captivated in the modern age by what John Ralston Saul calls 'a theology of pure power' built on 'organization, technology and information.' Our new priest, he writes, is the technocrat. 'the man who understands the organization, makes use of the technology and controls access to the information, which is a compendium of facts.' These technocrats have 'rendered powerless the law,' which is no longer used, as it was designed, 'to protect the individual from the unreasonable actions of others, especially those in power.' It is a weapon of injustice wielded by those who have married 'the state and the means of production.' ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Contrarian Journalist *by W***R on May 17, 2018* Chris Hedges is for me a reoccurring event. I first discovered him when following his pieces in the New York Times as a war corresponded in a region I knew something about, the Balkans. My impression: a man who understands what is happening; not a common occurrence in the media. He has never weaken that impression as he has moved on to other fields of inquire and other forms of publications, leaving he Times in 2003. He provoked me to try and find his roots and one of the most telling is time spent in Theology on the way to Journalism. My review of his Death of the Liberal Class calling him: The conscience of America and while (a few) others still play that role few are so relentless. He describes one cause of the crisis of our time the incompatibility of corporate control and democratic institutions and he issued a new introduction of Princeton University reissue of Sheldon Wolin’s Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism, the power house who polished that theme. This work shows him further along dealing with the issue of what then? Things must change but how will they —Rebellion. Here he calls on his own lifetime observations of régimes in decay, the rich historic descriptions of empires in decline and a roster of revolutionaries successful and not; thought provoking, as all of his works. In his acknowledgments he list a class mate of mine from fifty years ago who also went into the field of Journalism – successfully -- Robert Scheer who shares Hedges contrarian nature and has also a checkered career. These gentlemen and men and women like them are the beating heart of what is left of the free press in this captured state: America. Support them when you can but you will need to go looking to find them. Less a case in Chris's case. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of America's most creative thinkers. *by F***R on May 13, 2015* Chris Hedges is one of the most creative minds in America today. I don't always agree with him. I think he is too negative about the Democratic Party. However, he is right on target in seeing America and the world on a road to disaster if things don't change. I've read most of his books and his columns in Truthdig. The full force of Hedges scorn is directed at the U.S. liberal establishment. He even wrote a book about the "liberal class". Today, we are told that "everybody" in the Democratic Party "must support" Hillary Clinton, the favorite candidate of Wall Street and a leading cheer leader for going to war in Iraq. As Secretary of State Hillary was the leading advocate for America's disastrous military inventions in Libya and Syria. If the Democrats really do nominate Hillary, then Hedges may be right. Chris Hedges is an experienced journalist who was worked in key trouble spots overseas. Unlike Washington D.C.'s war mongering foreign policy "experts", he actually speaks foreign languages and understands foreign nations. Buy this book. You may not like a lot of what you read. But this is a creative mind. Hillary is now talking up restarting a new Cold War with Russia. Her key foreign policy advisor, Mr. Kagan, is a close ally of right wing neo conservatives. Iraq cost us $3 trillion and one million dead Iraqi citizens. Hillary's policies have already killed 300,000 in Syria. America needs more honest people like Hedges. Hopefully, his ideas can save the Democratic Party and the world from Hillary and other war mongers and plutocrats. I would also strongly recommend that people follow his column on Truthdig to keep up on current events. I would suggest for further reading a book Hedges frequently quotes from, Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism. This shows how our civil liberties are being reduced by a ruling elite. Also check out Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield by one of America's best investigative journalists about what American foreign policy is up to overseas. These books have a similar theme to Hedges work, the increasingly ruthless policies of the people at the top in a failing system. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tw/products/35627314-wages-of-rebellion](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/35627314-wages-of-rebellion) --- *Product available on Desertcart Taiwan* *Store origin: TW* *Last updated: 2026-10-25*