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Description
In 1958, Belgian surrealist Marcel Mariën drafted a plan to topple capitalism on a global scale-achievable in a single year, in any place, at any time. The catch? It required three hundred accomplices, and it was destined to fail.
Mariën's text dares to imagine the unimaginable, offering a blueprint as much for play as for politics. By fusing the spirit of surrealism with the urgency of the atomic age, Mariën exposes the thin line between theory and performance, reality and fiction. This book captures one of his boldest gestures: a proposal not to succeed, but to alter the very way we think about revolution.
Product details
| Published | 01 Dec 2026 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 208 |
| ISBN | 9781788733656 |
| Imprint | Verso |
| Dimensions | 210 x 140 mm |
| Publisher | New Left Books Ltd |
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Published in 1958 by Les Lèvres nues, this book was written against the specific backdrop of the threat of nuclear destruction that then pitted the Eastern Bloc against the Western world. For Marcel Mariën, it was nothing more and nothing less than proposing a method for seizing power aimed at “overthrowing capitalism across the entire world it controls, within a fixed timeframe of one year-a programme that could be implemented at any moment and everywhere at once. ”, by turning one of its own weapons against it: advertising. Political fiction, joke, or real-life manual for a short-term revolution, this work-which met with no success at the time-is one of the most astonishing documents produced by Surrealism in Belgium, demonstrating its inseparable link to political action
Xavier Canonne, author of René Magritte: The Revealing Image




















