Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism

By Jack D. Forbes

Celebrated American Indian thinker Jack D. Forbes's Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anticivilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has inspired America's most influential activists for decades. Frighteningly, his radical critique of the modern "civilized" lifestyle is more relevant now than ever before.
Identifying the Western compulsion to consume the earth as a sickness, Forbes writes:
"Brutality knows no boundaries. Greed knows no limits. Perversion knows no borders. . . . These characteristics all push towards an extreme, always moving forward once the initial infection sets in. . . . This is the disease of the consuming of other creatures' lives and possessions. I call it cannibalism."
This updated edition includes a new chapter by the author.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583227814
• ISBN13: 9781583227817
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Important and Significant Read

This book has not left my mind since I've read it. Although written in the 70's originally, it is just as relevant. Forbes' lens is so clear once you see through it. He explains how a level of greed can be to the point of being disease and how we've turned people plagued with it into heros.