Even though this may be the most disturbing, messed up and disgusting book I’ve ever read, I have to give Welsh credit for simultaneously inhabiting the mind of a psychopath quite believably while fully conveying the humanity of his subject.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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